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Anthony McCall, Between You and I, 2009, Installation St. Cornelius Chapel

Five Best NYC Gallery Shows of the Last Year (2011-2012)

Beautiful Floor Installations made with Tape: Floor installation by Jim Lambie

Video by artist/director Marco Brambilla just blew me away today.. It was exhibited and originally shown in the elevators of the Standard Hotel in NYC. (Follow link to view it)

Gregor Gaida’s Aluminum Boys Destroy Art Gallery Floors

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom, known for his hyper realistic depiction of the human body.

26 July 2012: Artist, Yayoi Kusama in her installation Fireflies on the Water (2002) two weeks ago. The room is currently on view at the Whitney, NYC as part of Kusama’s retrospective.

The Polka Dot World of Yayoi Kusama

The Polka Dot World of Yayoi Kusama

Damian Hirst, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living', 1991 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, march 2008.

Chuck Close portrait of Cindy Sherman...or....me? #iwearglassesandhavebrownhair

Chuck Close and Yayoi Kusama at the opening of her retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, July 2012.

Chandelier by Ai Weiwei

Artist, Ron Mueck.. London based artist of super or sub-sized human sculptures. The 'big man' looks like he is not happy with the art handlers touching him...

Ron Mueck.. the London based artist of super or sub-sized human sculptures

Ron Mueck.. the London based artist of super or sub-sized human sculptures and part of the 'Young British Artists' in the 90's.

Ron Mueck.. the London based artist of super or sub-sized human sculptures and part of the 'Young British Artists' in the 90's. Charles Saatchi has collected and curated many of his works.

Artist, Doris Salcedo installation, Istanbul Biennial (2003)

Cube Light by Ai Weiwei

Installation artist Berndnaut Smilde.

Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates manmade cloud installation indoors.

Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors!

Conceptual Artist: Jenny Holzer

Conceptual Artist: Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer: conceptual American Artist.. one of my favorite works.

Jenny Holzer: conceptual American Artist.

Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist. She explores new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects.

Lisa Adams "Search and Rescue" 2010 oil on panel 20 x 24 inches

Lisa Adams "Two Down, Then Left" 2011 oil on panel 20 x 24 inches

Lisa Adams "The Order of Entropy" 2011 Oil and spray paint on panel 30 x 36 inches

Artist: Yinka Shonibare parodies Jean-Honore Fragonard's Rococo oil painting "The Swing" from 1766 with a mannequin scene.

Artist: Yinka Shonibare @ Brooklyn Museum

Artist: Yinka Shonibar: British-Nigerian artist living in the UK.

Artist: Yinka Shonibara is well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation.

Artists: Chapman brothers Jake and Dinos, "Tragic Anatomies" (1996). Chapman brothers use the human body as a way to explore an aesthetics of horror.

Artists: Jake and Dinos Chapman "Forhead" (1997). Perhaps a commentary on science genetic research and technology.

"My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor," artist Kara Walker's works challenge conventional narratives of American history and the antebellum South. With biting humor, the artist comments on race, slavery and liberation, sexual attraction and exploitation, discrimination, and modernity.

Artist: Kara Walker "Trilogy" (2001) Mixed media and paper on canvas board

Artist Artist Kara Walker manages to take these negative aspects of the silhouette (and surrounding negative space) and create sharp commentaries with her silhouette installations.

Artist: Kara Walker, detail of work "The Cardinal Fire"

Artist: Kara Walker. Detail from "Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. (1994)

Artist: Lisa Adams, detail of oil painting on panel, "A Mechanism of Harbingers" (2007)

Artist: Lisa Adams "A Bird for Zosimus" (2008) oil on panel.

Artist: Lisa Adams "Prelapsarian Dream" (2008), oil on panel.

Artist: Lisa Adams, "Avian Avatar" (2011) Oil on panel.

Artist: Lisa Adams, "Made in the USA" (2010) Oil on panel.

Artist: Christian Boltanski, Venice Biennalle 2011. "Chance" explores the luck and fate of newborns, whose beginnings are subject entirely to chance.

Christian Boltanski picture with his work in Venice Biennalle 2011, "Chance"

Christian Boltanski, Chance, 2011 at the La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale)