Arguably the most dangerous of all Performance artists of the 20th century, Chris Burden did a lot of stupid stuff, including getting shot through the arm. Only a portion of the video of the event survives, though much of the audio still does, and it as a whole still works.
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It's a beautiful piece, and it's one that I have been going back to over, and over, and over...
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Mel Ramos was one of the last remaining POP artists working when he passed away late last year. In the same vein as Thiebaud, he painted aspects of modern America in a way that brought them into the Gallery setting.
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One of the most fascinating artists of the 21st Century, but also one that has made the wrong headlines...
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One of the most 1980s of 1980s art, Jeff Koons actually manages something next to magic, and with incredible depth... no matter what Jeff says!
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A wonderful work by the greatest living American Artist that hangs in the SFMoMA
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Phil Guston was an absolute legend, and The Tale somehow manages to feel cartoony while still being non-figurative.
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Tracey Emin's My Bed is one of those works that makes you realise that being an artist in the world of the yba was more like being a movie star than an artist... except for when it wasn't.
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Robert Rauschenberg was one of the most important of the artists in the transition from AbEx to POP Art. Monogram, with its distinctive tire around its middle, is one of the greatest works of art of the last century.
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