APAH - Global Contemporary

Given the clue, enter the name of the Global Contemporary work most-applicable. Some clues may apply to multiple works, but only include that which are referenced (via a featured artwork) on the 250 list.
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Influenced by the story of Little Red Ridinghood
Lying with the Wolf
Its main subject is bereft of mode and body of transport
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Features 7,503 16-feet-tall free-hanging saffron-colored fabric panels
The Gates
Surrounded by alien-like Bodhisattva playing musical instruments
Pure Land
Located in Rome, Italy
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Requires the viewer's stillness and concentration; evoking spirtual traditions from Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism
The Crossing
Westerners may view the subject's clothes as expression of female oppresion
Rebellious Silence
Composed of over 100 million handcrafted pieces of ceramic
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
One of the video feeds shows the spectators to themselves, making the audience participate in the work
Electronic Superhighway
Represents an ocean of fathomless depth made of millions of objects
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
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
Made by Faith Ringgold
Dancing at the Louvre
Contradictorily suggesting "prey" and "preying" simultaneously
Preying Mantra
Has a hollowed-out figure seen in the round; a staple of the artist's sculptures
Androgyne III
References Chinese art forms: scrolls, screens, books, and paper
A Book from the Sky
Built in 2009 as a staple of Deconstructivism
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
References lushness of "green time" (season after it rains)
Earth's Creation
Suggests excitement of competition via chaos of swirling lines in its composition
Stadia II
Reflects stereotypes towards black women in regards to being a "seductress" and "wild"
Preying Mantra
References alcohol, as rum was an important part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Old Man's Cloth
Reflects Chairman Mao's ideology with him as the sun and the Chinese people as the sunflowers
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Emphasizes female strength via the central figures taming of a wild beast
Lying with the Wolf
Emphasizes the theme of recycling via its medium being a reused material from bottles
Old Man's Cloth
Red colors denote blood and themes of lust
Untitled #228
Covered with glass windows and dons a glass roof
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
The New-Jersey-born artist is the photographer, the subject, consumer, hairdresser, and makeup artist in her works
Untitled #228
Color photograph on glass
Pure Land
Made by Frank Gehry
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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)
Main figure lacks emotional attachment, despite the murder that his been taken place
Untitled #228
Multilayered, sweeping lines create animation and depth
Stadia II
Subject is limbless and headless
Androgyne III
Artist born in Pennsylvania and worked on Wall Street (a "slimeball," according to Ms. Fleet); intended to provoke audience and profit
Pink Panther
Built in a neighboorhood building in Hartford, Connecticut, not in a museum
En la Barberia no se Llora
Large, wrinkled drawing pinned to a wall
Lying with the Wolf
Shows Renaissance and Baroque influence: tenebrism, contrapposto, elaborate fabrics, biblical subject matter
Untitled #228
Influenced by graffiti art and street poetry
Horn Players
Unique interpretation of traditional Japanese art forms by a Japanese artist
Pure Land
Medium reflects semi-historical story of it being used to spread information about the Underground Railroad
Dancing at the Louvre
Glass roof and blinds modulate natural light
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Has fuzzy bordering on each of the lines
Summer Trees
Neon symbolizes motel and restaurant signs
Electronic Superhighway
Lacks symmetry and acts as an overlapping mass of curvelinear forms
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
After each is seen, the central figure disappears
The Crossing
Made by Mariko Mori
Pure Land
Has four channels of amplified stereo sound from four different speakers
The Crossing
Implies a cycle of purification and destruction given the repetiveness
The Crossing
Name references idea of excluding people from a group: xenophobia, racism, and colonialism
Shibboleth
Addresses the nude female figure lying down; breasts are shown prominently
Lying with the Wolf
Artist's only source of protein during his childhood represented here
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Made of "high art" porcelain
Pink Panther
Walls and interior staircases ebb and flow with some symmetry and asymmetry
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Has a green snake interlocking with her fingers, connecting to the snake in the Garden of Eden
Preying Mantra
Built in 1997 as a staple of Deconstructivism
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Artist served as a nurse in WWII witnessing the detatchment of limbs and other horrors
Androgyne III
Made by Jeff Koons
Pink Panther
Strongly criticized monument with a secondary more-traditional monument made nearby
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Explores conditions of African-Americans in the antebellum South
Darkytown Rebellion
Combines collage elements with abstract brushwork
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
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