"The choice of a new generation." It's the cheesiest!" "You are not yourself." Guess which one of these catchy slogans came from Barbara Kruger. Here's a hint: it made you paranoid. Kruger combines unsettling slogans with found or fabricated images from popular culture -- photographs from magazin

Cartoonish, In-your-face, Media art, Political, Pop, Spectral

Hailed by critics as one of the most important artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has had a protean career, flowing from one medium to the next and one concept to the next with each work. Concept, indeed, is the core of his work. In order to convey new messages, Nauman challenges traditional not

Body art, Death, Euphoric, Repetitive

American sculptor and Conceptual artist Kiki Smith is known for looking at the human form from the inside out. One example is her sculpture consisting of a pair of life-size wax nudes: a man and a woman, dangling side by side as if crucified. The figures, with their yellowed skin, blank faces, and dr

Biomorphic, Erotic, Modern sculpture, Sincere, Visceral

It's not exactly accurate to call Rikrit Tiravanija a "visual" artist. As he says, "it is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people." Tiravanija does not produce works so much as situations or events. Tiravanija's art does not, strictly speaking, belong to him; it is not

Intimate, Open-ended, Sincere, Visceral