Curator, Connie Butler: Like many of Dumas’s works, these two Magdalenas spring from multiple inspirations. Tall, narrow and dark, the paintings loom majestically over the viewer, like monumental ...

One of the funniest interpretations of readymade color in the 1960s were Andy Warhol's Do-It-Yourself paintings, based on the popular paint-by-number kits that I certainly remember as a child. As you ...

RICHARD SERRA: One of the things that my art does, is that it allows you to examine things that thwart your expectation. This piece is based on your moving through the space. I used two very low, long ...

NARRATOR: Eva Respini, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. EVA RESPINI: This photograph is part of a series of pictures that feature women of a ...

NARRATOR: Kiki Smith uses color sparingly, but the works on this wall reflect the influence of a specific period of illustration: Victorian children's books. Here, you see two treatments of Little Red ...

NARRATOR: Richard Serra, standing at the foot of the steps looking into his sculpture: RICHARD SERRA: This is a piece called Intersection II. It was built in 1992, '93. It consists of four identical ...

NARRATOR: The artist, Rachel Whiteread, on creating this room-sized sculpture. RACHEL WHITEREAD: What I wanted to do was to make an impression of a room that was potentially full of books, but also ...

RON ARAD: The Big Easy, the Volume Series are all about illusion. It's an illusion of volume. You create an illusion of a solid volume by manipulating the envelope. These pieces are the first welded ...