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Hint	Artwork	% Correct
Made out of burlap (a rough cloth) and soaked in resin for a shiny finish; made into a rigid surface and fit into molds	Androgyne III	100%
Medium reflects semi-historical story of it being used to spread information about the Underground Railroad	Dancing at the Louvre	100%
The borders of the work has text which tells the narrative	Dancing at the Louvre	100%
Explores African-American stereotypes and caricatures in the historical commentary	Darkytown Rebellion	100%
Made by Emily Kame Kngwarreye	Earth's Creation	100%
Artist is self-taught and began their career doing ceremonial painting	Earth's Creation	100%
Made via the artist sitting down on the middle of the canvas and painting around her	Earth's Creation	100%
One of the video feeds shows the spectators to themselves, making the audience participate in the work	Electronic Superhighway	100%
Made by a Korean-born artist who was intrigued by maps, travel, and the interstate highway system	Electronic Superhighway	100%
Neon symbolizes motel and restaurant signs	Electronic Superhighway	100%
Built in a neighboorhood building in Hartford, Connecticut, not in a museum	En la Barberia no se Llora	100%
Built in 1997 as a staple of Deconstructivism	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	100%
Made by Jean-Michel Basquiat	Horn Players	100%
Created this work while engaging in other media (reading, TV), writing words he heard	Horn Players	100%
Made by Kiki Smith	Lying with the Wolf	100%
Large, wrinkled drawing pinned to a wall	Lying with the Wolf	100%
Though complimentary figure typically scene as bad omen, this connotation is not present	Lying with the Wolf	100%
Located in Rome, Italy	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	100%
Made by El Anatsui	Old Man's Cloth	100%
Gold color reflects traditional cloth colors and references royalty	Old Man's Cloth	100%
References alcohol, as rum was an important part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade	Old Man's Cloth	100%
Made of "high art" porcelain	Pink Panther	100%
Artist born in Pennsylvania and worked on Wall Street (a "slimeball," according to Ms. Fleet); intended to provoke audience and profit	Pink Panther	100%
Often engaged in a multimedia performance art called The Challenge	Pisupo Lua Afe	100%
Has four hidden wheels on the work's bottom	Pisupo Lua Afe	100%
Artist born in New Zealand and explores aspects of his Polynesian heritage	Pisupo Lua Afe	100%
Emphasizes the theme of recycling via its medium being a reused food material	Pisupo Lua Afe	100%
Made by an Ethiopian artist who, along with Julie Mehretu, is a part of "Africa's Out"	Preying Mantra	100%
Her left earlobe has chicken feet, insect legs, and pinchers	Preying Mantra	100%
Kichijōten is seen as the essence of beauty, harbringer of prosperity and happiness	Pure Land	100%
Large crack beginning at a hairline and then widens to two feet deep	Shibboleth	100%
Made by a Colombian sculptor	Shibboleth	100%
References Judges 12:6 in which the Ephraimites who mispronounced a word were execute	Shibboleth	100%
Reflects growing nationalism via its suggested objects and location	Stadia II	100%
Made by an Ethiopian artist who, along with Wangechi Mutu, is a part of "Africa's Out"	Stadia II	100%
Features large vertical lines of various thickness	Summer Trees	100%
Used Korean ink on paper artistic tradition	Summer Trees	100%
Artist was a leader of the Sumukhwa: new type of ink brush painting	Summer Trees	100%
Has fuzzy bordering on each of the lines	Summer Trees	100%
Abstract representation of trees	Summer Trees	100%
One side shows water falling from above on a figure, beginning as a slow drip and ending by consuming him	The Crossing	100%
Features 7,503 16-feet-tall free-hanging saffron-colored fabric panels	The Gates	100%
Mounted in the winter to maximize the color-impact of the work, contrasting with the barren trees	The Gates	100%
Made by Yinka Shonibare	The Swing (after Fragonard)	100%
Shows Old Testament figure Judith decapitating Holofernes	Untitled #228	100%
Main figure lacks emotional attachment, despite the murder that his been taken place	Untitled #228	100%
Main figure holds a masklike, alert, decapitated head	Untitled #228	100%
Names start and end in a vortex	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	100%
Reflects a scar into the earth; reflection of the impact of war	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	100%
Made by Faith Ringgold	Dancing at the Louvre	50%
Made by Pepón Osorio	En la Barberia no se Llora	50%
Made by Frank Gehry	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	50%
Has a flattened, darkened background with flat platches of colors, thick lines, and text	Horn Players	50%
One was allowed to walk on this work (even have picnics), but not allowed after too much harmful ceramic dust was raised	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	50%
Influenced by one of Paris' patron's saints, St. Genevieve, due to her profound connection with animals	Lying with the Wolf	50%
Part of a series called The Banality	Pink Panther	50%
Medium is a major contributor to obesity and loss of traditional cultural skills i.e. fishing, cooking, agriculture	Pisupo Lua Afe	50%
Figure is camoflauged in the scene with blotched skin	Preying Mantra	50%
Contradictorily suggesting "prey" and "preying" simultaneously	Preying Mantra	50%
Color photograph on glass	Pure Land	50%
Made of highly-reflective black granite so the viewer can see themselves in the place of the fallen	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	50%
Made by Xu Bing	A Book from the Sky	0%
References Chinese art forms: scrolls, screens, books, and paper	A Book from the Sky	0%
Contains four hundred handmade books placed in rows on the ground	A Book from the Sky	0%
Books made using Movable Type Printing Press (predates Gutenberg) referencing Chinese history	A Book from the Sky	0%
Contains seemingly-real Chinese characters that possess no actual meaning	A Book from the Sky	0%
Originally titled "An Analyzed Reflection of the End of This Century"	A Book from the Sky	0%
Originally housed in National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing; relocated after criticism	A Book from the Sky	0%
Artist trained in propogandistic socialist realist style but loss favor with global Communist governments after making this work	A Book from the Sky	0%
Criticized as "burgeois liberation:" claimed meaningless and subversive	A Book from the Sky	0%
Reflects meaningless of political doublespeak	A Book from the Sky	0%
Reflects the ubiquity of propoganda and the meaningless derived from its omnipresentness	A Book from the Sky	0%
Made by Magdalena Abaknowicz	Androgyne III	0%
Subject is limbless and headless	Androgyne III	0%
Figure sits on low stretcher of wooden legs which substitute for human legs	Androgyne III	0%
Has a hollowed-out figure seen in the round; a staple of the artist's sculptures	Androgyne III	0%
Androgynous figure has pose of meditation and/or perseverance	Androgyne III	0%
Material meant to mimic crinkled human skin in earth tones	Androgyne III	0%
Made by Polish artist who experienced German invasion and her mother's arms being shot off	Androgyne III	0%
Artist served as a nurse in WWII witnessing the detatchment of limbs and other horrors	Androgyne III	0%
Explores the dehumanization of the communist government of the USSR; despite lack of head and limbs, possesses individuality	Androgyne III	0%
Part of the series The French Collection, Part I	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
Medium reflects medium used by American slaves in antebellum South	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
Shows a self-insert fan-fiction set in historical scenes	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
Stars young black artist Willia Marie Simone who moves to Paris	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
Contains three paintings by Leonard da Vinci	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
The artist's works often reflects themes of feminism, racism, and her struggle in an art world dominated by men with European training	Dancing at the Louvre	0%
Made by Kara Walker	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Made via large pieces of black paper drawn with greasy white pencil or soft pastel, then cut with a knife	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Adhered to a gallery wall using wax	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Made of silhouette forms	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Overhead projectors throw colored light onto the walls, ceilings, and floor	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Cast shadows created from the viewer create audience participation	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Explores conditions of African-Americans in the antebellum South	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
A teenager holds a flag resembling a colonial ship sail	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
A man has his leg cut off and a woman is caring for new borns	Darkytown Rebellion	0%
Uses synthetic polymer paint	Earth's Creation	0%
Uses the dump-dot technique: pounding paint onto the canvas to create layers with sense of color and movement	Earth's Creation	0%
Style related to Australian "dream time" painting and influenced by European abstraction	Earth's Creation	0%
References lushness of "green time" (season after it rains)	Earth's Creation	0%
Made by an Australian aborigine artist	Earth's Creation	0%
Branched out from canonized style of typical painting from culture; immediate success when seen by Western audiences	Earth's Creation	0%
Work derived from museum delivering paint to tribe to raise awareness	Earth's Creation	0%
Made by Nam June Paik	Electronic Superhighway	0%
Uses neon lights and television screens	Electronic Superhighway	0%
Features all 50 states (Hawaii and Alaska on side walls) and the District of Columbia	Electronic Superhighway	0%
Has seperate video feeds for each section, displaying something symbolic of the section	Electronic Superhighway	0%
Large installation recreating a room	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Discusses machismo (extreme masculinity in Latino male culture)	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Has photos of Latino men, most of which being strong and stereotypically masculine	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Has video screens depicting men playing, crying, and a baby being circumcised	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Made by a Puerto-Rican artist	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Has a pool table	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Contains stereotypically masculine objects and kitsche such as sport memoribilia	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Contains stereotypically feminine objects, such as lace and flowers	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Has a mural of two roses with three phallic-shaped bullets below	En la Barberia no se Llora	0%
Located in Bilbao, Spain	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Has swirling forms the contrast with the city's industrial landscape	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Resembles a boat in form, symbolizing its host city's role as a shipping and commercial center	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Designed in a computer software program called Catia	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Made of titanium and limestone with full-scale glass windows	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Produces a shimmering surface that changes due to atmospheric conditions due to its material	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Has an effect named after it referring to the revitalization of an area after a museum is created	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Lacks symmetry and acts as an overlapping mass of curvelinear forms	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	0%
Features some traditional forms: a tripytch, canvas, and uses oil paint	Horn Players	0%
Glorifies African-American musicisans; shows Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	Horn Players	0%
"Orninthology" (misspelled) references Charlie "the bird" Parker	Horn Players	0%
"Soap" and other words critique racism	Horn Players	0%
Features meaningless words that replicate scat singing	Horn Players	0%
Artist rebelled against his middle-class upbringing	Horn Players	0%
Influenced by graffiti art and street poetry	Horn Players	0%
Hallmark of neo-expressionism	Horn Players	0%
Made by Ai Weiwei	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Featured in Tate Modern Turbine Hall, also home of Shibboleth	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Represents an ocean of fathomless depth made of millions of objects	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Composed of over 100 million handcrafted pieces of ceramic	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Objects created in Jingdezhen–– city known for porcelain production and where the David Vases were created	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Every one is unique and handpainted but in a collection: symbolizes individualism despite mass of people	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
What object represents was a source of food during famine era under Mao Zedong	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Artist's only source of protein during his childhood represented here	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Reflects Chairman Mao's ideology with him as the sun and the Chinese people as the sunflowers	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Artist hated by the Chinese Communist Party: work (and others) intended to subvert aspects of Chinese society	Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)	0%
Features a woman and a wolf	Lying with the Wolf	0%
Addresses the nude female figure lying down; breasts are shown prominently	Lying with the Wolf	0%
Emphasizes female strength via the central figures taming of a wild beast	Lying with the Wolf	0%
Influenced by the story of Little Red Ridinghood	Lying with the Wolf	0%
Made by Zaha Hadid	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Iraqi-born artist who won a competition to design this work	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Built in 2009 as a staple of Deconstructivism	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Covered with glass windows and dons a glass roof	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Glass roof and blinds modulate natural light	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Walls and interior staircases ebb and flow with some symmetry and asymmetry	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Uses subtle tonal shifts of gray to contrast with shiny black paint	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Features two museums, a library, an auditorium, and a cafeteria	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Made of steel and cemenet as well as referencing Roman concrete construction	MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts	0%
Made by one thousand bottle caps from a Nigerian distillery joined by wire	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Forms a cloth-like hanging but not made of a soft material and power tools were used to shape	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Emphasizes the theme of recycling via its medium being a reused material from bottles	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Meant to be hung like a cloth, with museums getting the freedom to hang however fits best	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Made by a Ghanian artist in Nigeria; combining native traditions with abstractionist movement	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Gold color symbolizes Ashanti dominance of African gold trade	Old Man's Cloth	0%
Made by Jeff Koons	Pink Panther	0%
Features an artifically idealized female form with overly yellow hair, bright red lips, large breast, and pronounced red fingernails	Pink Panther	0%
Life-size sculpture of Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967), screen star and Playboy playmate	Pink Panther	0%
Features cartoon Character Pink Panther tenderly and delicately holding the lower back of a woman	Pink Panther	0%
Staple of kitsch works	Pink Panther	0%
A "cringe" sculpture arguably endorsing sexist imagery of the 1960s	Pink Panther	0%
Made by Michel Tuffery	Pisupo Lua Afe	0%
Translates to "Corned Beef 2000"	Pisupo Lua Afe	0%
Lifesize sculpture of a bull made from flattened cans of corned beef	Pisupo Lua Afe	0%
Medium of the work often is given as a gift on special occasions, such as weddings or funeral, in this region	Pisupo Lua Afe	0%
Made by Wangechi Mutu	Preying Mantra	0%
Dominated by a collaged female figure	Preying Mantra	0%
Figure's reclining in a relaxed position intended to allure	Preying Mantra	0%
Reflects stereotypes towards black women in regards to being a "seductress" and "wild"	Preying Mantra	0%
Name is a play on words of an insect reflecting the "wild" nature stereotype	Preying Mantra	0%
References sexual cannibalism and suggesting religious rituals	Preying Mantra	0%
Has a green snake interlocking with her fingers, connecting to the snake in the Garden of Eden	Preying Mantra	0%
Related to Afro-Futurism, given artist's Kenyan nativity	Preying Mantra	0%
Explores hybridity of cultures (African and Western) reflected in hybrid of anthromorphic and insect forms	Preying Mantra	0%
Made by Mariko Mori	Pure Land	0%
A photograph that features the artist in the guise of the Heian diety, Kichijōten	Pure Land	0%
The main figure holds a nyoi hōju, a wish-granting jewel that can deny evil; symbolizes Buddha's universal mind	Pure Land	0%
Surrounded by alien-like Bodhisattva playing musical instruments	Pure Land	0%
Features a lotus blossom symbolizing purity and rebirth into paradise and connecting to Buddhist iconography	Pure Land	0%
Landscape evokes and taken at the high-salinity Dead Sea: salt seen as agent of purification	Pure Land	0%
Unique interpretation of traditional Japanese art forms by a Japanese artist	Pure Land	0%
Made by Shirin Neshat	Rebellious Silence	0%
Black and white photograph; taken by Cynthia Preston	Rebellious Silence	0%
Work in the Women of Allah series	Rebellious Silence	0%
Features a poem written in Farsi about piety and the bravery of martyrdom by an Iranian woman	Rebellious Silence	0%
Composition divided, by a gun, into a lighter and darker side	Rebellious Silence	0%
Features a woman wearing a chador (feminine outer garment allowing only face and hands to be seen)	Rebellious Silence	0%
Westerners may view the subject's clothes as expression of female oppresion	Rebellious Silence	0%
Westerners may view the subject's clothes as a defense of faith and customs plus a sign of right-minded obedience	Rebellious Silence	0%
Frontal gaze of subject depicts the counteracting of objectification and the Western tradition of exotic female nudes in opulent settings	Rebellious Silence	0%
Made by Doris Salcedo	Shibboleth	0%
Featured in Tate Modern Turbine Hall, also home of Sunflower Seeds	Shibboleth	0%
Name references idea of excluding people from a group: xenophobia, racism, and colonialism	Shibboleth	0%
Refernces the idea of physical distance between two groups and gaps in relationships	Shibboleth	0%
Installation now sealed, by a scar (symbolically representing ability to heal, but not ignoring issues) remains present	Shibboleth	0%
Made by Julie Mehretu	Stadia II	0%
Stylized rendering of stadium architecture, such as for sports events, at a massively-large scale	Stadia II	0%
Suggests excitement of competition via chaos of swirling lines in its composition	Stadia II	0%
Multilayered, sweeping lines create animation and depth	Stadia II	0%
Geometric shapes and colors suggest country's flags	Stadia II	0%
References constructivism: divorces from context of history	Stadia II	0%
Made by Song Su-nam	Summer Trees	0%
Shows subtle tonal variations in the ink	Summer Trees	0%
Uses wet-on-wet technique in whcih paper is soaked and then made with large brushstrokes	Summer Trees	0%
Made by Bill Viola	The Crossing	0%
Is composed of two video recordings	The Crossing	0%
Features performer Phil Esposito	The Crossing	0%
In a large black room with 12-foot-tall screens	The Crossing	0%
Has four channels of amplified stereo sound from four different speakers	The Crossing	0%
One side shows flames consuming a figure, beginning at his feet and engulfing him in a roaring fire	The Crossing	0%
After each is seen, the central figure disappears	The Crossing	0%
Figures walk in extremely slow motion	The Crossing	0%
Implies a cycle of purification and destruction given the repetiveness	The Crossing	0%
Requires the viewer's stillness and concentration; evoking spirtual traditions from Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism	The Crossing	0%
Made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude	The Gates	0%
Took 30 years to design and 20 million dollars	The Gates	0%
Happening occuring in Central Park, New York City	The Gates	0%
A temporary instillation which was recycled after 16 days of being up	The Gates	0%
Declined offer for purchasing less than 1% of the work for its construction cost	The Gates	0%
Based on a famed rococo painting	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Dominated by a life-size headless mannequin	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Figure lacks a head alluding to the decapitations of the French Revolution	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Dress made of Dutch wax fabric; sold in Africa and often identified with their culture, but of European origins	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Has an array of flowering vines but lacks the two men typically present with the audience taking their place	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Has a shoe being flung into the air, held in motion	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Comments on xenophobia and colonialism (especially given the artist is Nigerian) via the use of wear and modification of the scene	The Swing (after Fragonard)	0%
Made by Jaune Quick-to-see Smith	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Combines collage elements with abstract brushwork	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Has newspaper clipping and images of Native conquest	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Dominated by a large canoe painted in oil	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Its main subject is bereft of mode and body of transport	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Dominated by red symbolizing shed Indian blood	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Meant as the "Quincentenary Non-Celebration" of Christopher Columbus' arrival to the Americas	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Stresses issued caused by European contact such as alcoholism, disease, and unemployment	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Features objects representing the European view of Indian culture	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Has sports memorabilia from the Washington Redskins	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
References the Dutch "purchasing" of Manhattan for $24 (likely not seen as buying land but tribute)	Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)	0%
Made by Cindy Sherman	Untitled #228	0%
Photograph from the History Portraits series	Untitled #228	0%
Shows Renaissance and Baroque influence: tenebrism, contrapposto, elaborate fabrics, biblical subject matter	Untitled #228	0%
Famous scene depicted, has been painted by Caravaggio and others; often adds a maid to the work	Untitled #228	0%
Figures hand holds a bloody knife	Untitled #228	0%
Red colors denote blood and themes of lust	Untitled #228	0%
Backed by a disorganized array of fabrics and drapes	Untitled #228	0%
Reflects the figures sexuality which was used to attract and kill the shown victim	Untitled #228	0%
The New-Jersey-born artist is the photographer, the subject, consumer, hairdresser, and makeup artist in her works	Untitled #228	0%
Made by Maya Lin	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
A V-shaped war monument cut into the earth inspired by the Minimalist Movement	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
List the names of 60,000 casulaties in order of when reported killed or missing	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
Chinese-born artist who won an anonymous competition to design this work	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
Points to the Lincoln Memorial	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
Points to the Washington Monument	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%
Strongly criticized monument with a secondary more-traditional monument made nearby	Vietnam Veterans Memorial	0%

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