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Grayson Perry's tapestry "Hold Your Beliefs Tight, There Will Be Consequences" (2012) is a visually rich and complex work that explores themes of class, identity, and the anxieties of contemporary British society. Woven with intricate detail, it…

Tracey Emin's "My Bed" (1998) is the artist's actual unmade bed, surrounded by the messy remnants of a period of depression: stained sheets, underwear, condoms, cigarettes, and alcohol bottles. This raw and intimate display offers an unflinching look…

Glenn Ligon's "Stranger in the Village #1" (1990) is a neon artwork that directly quotes James Baldwin's powerful 1953 essay, "Stranger in the Village." The glowing white neon text spells out a key excerpt from Baldwin's reflections on being the…

Kara Walker's cut paper silhouettes are large black-on-white scenes depicting the brutal history of American slavery and racial trauma. Using stark, often exaggerated figures in acts of violence and exploitation, she forces viewers to confront racist…

This map shows the area studied by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) for Memphis, Tennessee. The HOLC was created in the New Deal Era in the 1930's and 1940's, training many local real estate professionals to grade residential neighborhoods…

Composite photgraph taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2013. The image showcases Saturn and its rings. In the background, a tiny blue speck appears, our home planet, Earth, accompanied by the barley visible Moon.

The audible sound of Jupiter's soundwaves picked up by the Juno spacecraft during its first pass by of the planet.

Orbital Reflector is a sculpture constructed of lightweight material housed in a small box-like infrastructure known as CubeSat and launched into space aboard a rocket. Once in low Earth orbit, CubeSat opens and releases the sculpture, which…

"Border Tuner" is a large-scale, participatory art installation designed to interconnect the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Powerful searchlights make “bridges of light” that open live sound channels for communication across…

Aerial imgage of car centric Houston in the early 1980's