Monday's image: October 16, 2017

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Artist Unknown (possibly by Alexander Gardner), [The Wilderness Battlefield], Albumen silver print from glass negative, 4 15/16 x 3 1/4 inches, 1865-67, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monday's image: October 9, 2017

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Chryssa, The Gates to Times Square, Welded stainless steel, neon, and Plexiglas, 120 x 120 x 120 inches, 1966, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Monday's image: October 2, 2017

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Rafael Canogar, Police Barricade (Cordón de policía) from The Earth, Lithograph and embossing, from a portfolio of 14 lithographs, 22 1/16 x 30 1/16 inches, 1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: September 25, 2017

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Egyptian, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaura, Fragment of a Triad, Greywacke: Fist with rust colored pigment, 3 x 4 x 1 9/16 inches, 2532-2510 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Monday's image: September 18, 2017

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Karel Appel, Questioning Children, Gouache on wood, 873 x 598 x 158 millimeters, 1949, Tate Gallery, U.K.

Monday's image: September 11, 2017

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Felix Droese, Dresden Yellow I, Woodcut, 28 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches, 1993, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: September 4, 2017

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John Chamberlain, Nanoweap, Painted and chromium-plated steel, 53 1/4 x 59 3/4 x 40 1/2 inches, 1969, The Menil Collection, Houston

Monday's image: August 28, 2017

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SUPERFLEX, Flooded McDonald's, Digital video, Twenty-one minutes, 2009, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Note: Video edit is hyperlinked via the title of the work).

Monday's image: August 21, 2017

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Helen Pashgian, Untitled, Cast polyester resin, 8 inches diameter, 1968-1969, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California

Monday's image: August 14, 2017

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Norman Lewis, Evening Rendezvous, Oil on linen, 50.25 x 64.25 inches, 1962, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Monday's image: August 7, 2017

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Thomas Stearns, Night Image #1, Silk, linen, cactus fiber, wool, metal thread, lacquered and gilded pine, 6 feet 6 inches x 10 inches x 10 inches, 1963, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Monday's image: July 31, 2017

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Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla, Balance of Power, Performance, 3 people, Dimensions: none, 2007, Tate, U.K.

Monday's image: July 24, 2017

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Yoko Ono, Eye Blink, 16 millimeter film, black and white, 35 seconds, 1966, Reina Sofia, Madrid / Image credit: Jonas Mekas (Note: Video is hyperlinked via the title of the work).

Monday's image: July 17, 2017

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Carol Hepper, Three Corners, Wood, steel, hardware, 42 x 42 x 12 inches, 1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Monday's image: July 10, 2017

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Mohammad Abou El-Naga, Untitled, Mixed media on cast paper, 24 x 24 inches, 2007, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Monday's image: July 3, 2017

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Jim Goldberg, Watching Oprah, Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 50 inches, 2004, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Monday's image: June 26, 2017

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Austin Mecklem, Engine House and Bunkers, Oil on canvas, 38 x 50.25 inches, 1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor), Washington, D.C.

Monday's image: June 19, 2017

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Lonnie Holley, Don't Go Crossing My Fence, Wood, garden hose, mop, lamp base and other found materials, 81 x 52 x 23 inches, 1994, American Folk Art Museum, New York

Monday's image: June 12, 2017

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Melchiorre Cafà, Possibly by Ercole Ferrata, Study for the Personification of Silence, Italian, Terracotta, 16.6 centimeters, circa 1664, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Monday's image: June 5, 2017

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Hans Landsaat, Bridge, Screenprint on paper, 743 x 825 millimeters, 1978,
Tate Gallery, London