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Radical Seafaring
  1. Marie Lorenz (American, born 1973) Archipelago, 2012. Video installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery, New York.
  2. Swoon (American, born 1977) Hickory. 2009. Mixed Media. 20' x 20' x 20'. Photo: Tod Seelie
  3. Duke Riley (American, born 1972), After the Battle of Brooklyn, 2007. Courtesy the artist and Magnan Metz Gallery. Photo: Damon Winter
  4. Vik Muniz's "Lampedusa," 2015 is a floating installation over 42 feet long. The photo is part of an exhibit called "Radical Seafaring," on view at the Parrish Art Museum, May 8-July 24, 2016. The multidisciplinary exhibition includes two-dimensional works, sculptural objects, vessels, models, film and video, off-site commissions, and boat trips around East End waterways. (Credit: Vik Muniz)
  5. Mary Mattingly (American, born 1978). The Waterpod Project at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5, 2009. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Mike Nagle.
  6. Bas Jan Ader (Dutch, 1942-1975), In Search of the Miraculous, July 1975. Bulletin, Art and Project Gallery, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Meliksetian|Briggs, Los Angeles. Image altered for book cover design.

Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern
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Hotel Theory
  1. Bartholomew Ryan, HOTEL THEORY MEETS WRECKING BALL MANIFESTO, 2015, Drawing, Courtesy of Ryan Bartholomew
  2. Chance Event poster, 1996, Designed by Mike Kelly, Courtesy of Chris Kraus
  3. Steve Kado, October Jr., 2010, Softbound book, 140 pages, 7 3/8 × 5 1/4 in., Courtesy of the artist
  4. Hila Peleg, A Crime Against Art, 2007, DV PAL, 4:3, color, sound, 100 min., Courtesy of the artist
  5. Pedro Reyes, Baby Marx, 2008–, Courtesy of Moisés Cosío and the artist
  6. Danna Vajda, miko 1,2,3, 2011, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of the artist
  7. Claude Wampler, Lecture Without Content But With Choreography, 2011, Video documentation, 11:25 min., Courtesy of the artist
All exhibition installation images Courtesy of REDCAT/CalArts. Photo: Rafael Hernández

Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots
Photos courtesy of Sue Spaid and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
  1. Title Wall and works by Ecological Garden, Permaganic Co., N55 and Mara Adamitz Scrupe
  2. Permaganic Co., Permaganic Authenticated, national launch of certification process for permaculturally-derived produce
  3. Shannon Young, How Does Your Garden Grow, now on Fountain Square
  4. Homeadow Song, installation shot
  5. Susan Leibovitz Steinman, images from Equal Opportunity Eating pop-ups and EOE DIY pop-up, and Futurefarmers videos
  6. N55, XYZ Cincinnati Community Vehicle, (customized for Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage CSA) and works by Susanne Cockrell, Ted Purves, Andrew Bigler, Futurefarmers, Mei-ling Hom, and Anya Gallaccio
  7. Kim Abeles, Crafts, Cookery and Country Living, Agnes Denes, Wheatfield; A Confrontation, (composite) and Patricia Johanson

In the Holocene
Photos by Peter Harris; Courtesy of MIT List Visual Arts Center
  1. Title wall with Pamela Rosenkranz Firm Beings (partial view), 2009
  2. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lightning Fields 225, 2009
  3. Installation view with work by (left to right): Thea Djordjadze, Man Ray, Thea Djordjadze, Hanne Darboven, Sol LeWitt, and Joseph Beuys
  4. Installation view with work by (left to right): Carol Bove, Jimmie Durham, Alfred Jarry, Alfred Jarry, and João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
  5. Installation view with work by (left to right): On Kawara, John McCracken, Superstudio, and Robert Smithson

paperless
Photos by Cliff Dossel (3rd photo taken by Mitchell Kearney); Courtesy of SECCA
  1. Installation view with work by Karen Sargsyan; Nava Lubelski; Johannes VanDerBeek; Oscar Santillan; Natasha Bowdoin; Peter Callesen; Maskull Lasserre
  2. Installation view with works by Peter Callesen (foreground); Karen Sargsyan; Natasha Bowdoin; Johannes VanDerBeek; Simryn Gill
  3. Installation view with works by Peter Callesen; Katie Holten; Natasha Bowdoin (Photo by Mitchell Kearney)
  4. Installation view with works by Peter Callesen (foreground); Kiel Johnson
  5. Installation view with works by Johannes VanDerBeek; Simryn Gill; Oscar Santillan; Natasha Bowdoin
  6. Installation view with works by Doug Coupland; Oscar Tuazon; Peter Callesen; Simryn Gill; Nava Lubelski
  7. Installation view with works by Doug Coupland; Maskull Lasserre; Nava Lubelski; Simryn Gill; Oscar Santillan; Natasha Bowdoin; Karen Sargsyan; Peter Callesen; Kiel Johnson

Feast: Radical Hospitality and Contemporary Art
  1. Installation view, Laura Letinsky, Untitled #6, Rome series, Chromogenic print, 2009, Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Valerie Carberry Gallery; Photo by Lloyd De Grane
  2. Installation view, Daniel Spoerri (middle and right) and Bonnie Sherk (far left), Photo by Michael Tropea
  3.  Installation view, Alison Knowles, Identical Lunch, 1967/2012, Courtesy of the artist; Photo by Michael Tropea
  4. Suzanne Lacy, International Dinner Party, Mixed media installation recreating performance setting, including original panels and facsimiles of telegrams and binders, 1979/2012, Courtesy of the artist; Photo by Lloyd De Grane
  5. Lee Mingwei, The Dining Project, Documentary photo of performance at the Smart Museum of Art, 1998-2012, Courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects; Photo by Steven Rosofsky
  6. Motiroti, Potluck Chicago, Installation view of participatory artwork including map and photographic documentation, 2012, Commissioned by Columbia College, Chicago; Courtesy of the artists; Photo by Michael Tropea
  7. Installation view, Tom Marioni, The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, 1970-ongoing, Courtesy of the artist; Photo by Michael Tropea
  8. Installation view, Theaster Gates, Soul Food Pavilion, Series of intimate dinners held at Dorchester Projects, 2012, Commissioned by the Smart Museum of Art; Courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Photo by Sara Pooley
  9. Michael Rakowitz, Enemy Kitchen (Food Truck), Food truck and Iraqi cuisine served by US veterans on paper replicas of Saddam Hussein's china, 2012, Courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects; Photo by the Smart Museum of Art 

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead
Photos by Gerard Smulevich; Courtesy of MAK Center
  1. lauren woods
  2. Susan Stilton | If I Say So
  3. Yvonne Rainier | Looking Good
  4. Kori Newkirk
  5. Brandon Lattu
  6. Ken Gonzales-Day | Untitled, Profile Series
  7. Michael Asher

Material World: Sculpture to Environment
Photos by Art Evans; Courtesy of MASS MoCA
  1. Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen
  2. Michael Beutler
  3. Dan Steinhilber
  4. Tobias Putrih
  5. Orly Genger
  6. Alyson Shotz

Amateurs
Photos by Ian Reeve; Courtesy of California College of the Arts

Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000
Photos by Jason Mandella; Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio

Black Is, Black Ain’t
Photos by Tom Van Eynde; Courtesy of The Renaissance Society

Street Art Street Life: From the 1950s to Now
Photos courtesy of Michael Palma

Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany
Photos courtesy of Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University

Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism
Photos courtesy of the Queens Museum of Art.

Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia
Photos courtesy of the San Diego Museum of Art 

Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh
Photos by Michal Raz-Russo; Courtesy of MCA Chicago

Work Ethic
Photography by Mitro Hood; Courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Art 

Art, Healing, and Transformation
Photos by Suara Welitoff; Courtesy of The Institute of Contemporary Art

Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts
Photos by Denise Lewis (c) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  1. Jane and Louise Wilson | Stasi City
  2. Single-channel videos from the 1960s and 1970s
  3. Piplotti Rist | Sip My Ocean

Against Design
Photos courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art

Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium
  1. Allan Wexler | Gardening Sukkah | 1999 Mixed media, 9 x 10 x 10 ft. overall. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York.
  2. Claude Simard | Pulpit | 1992-93; Mahogan, 106 x 48 x 48 in. Collection of Le Musee de la Ville de Lachine, Quebec, Canada.
  3. Matthew Ritchie | Chapel Perilous | 2000 (Installation view) Mixed media installation, 124 x 143 x 143 in.
  4. Michael Tracy | Chapel of the Damned | 2000 Mixed-media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
  5. Barbara Broughel | Requiem Series | 1991; 29 sculptures, mixed media. Courtesy of the artist, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, and Frederieke Taylor/TZ'Art, New York.
  6. Clara Gutsche | Les Soeurs Adoratrices du Precieux-Sang, The Gallery, Nicolet | 1995; Chromatic color print, 15 x 19 in. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York.