Jaume Plensa's 'Crown Fountain' (2004)

Modern day deities

Pierre Vignon's 'La Madeleine' (1842)

Emulating Roman grandeur

Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010)

Rest in peace

Luis Jiménez's 'Mustang' (2008)

Kitschiest of kitsch

Rembrandt van Rijn's 'The Slaughtered Ox' (1655)

Psychology of light

Frederic Edwin Church's 'Twilight in the Wilderness' (1860)

Reaffirming nature's nobility

Barbara Hepworth's 'Three Forms' (1935)

Evoking organic vitality

Jeff Koons' 'Triple Hulk Elvis I' (2007)

So unbelievably trite

Jean-Antoine Watteau's 'La Gamme d'Amour' (1712)

Making sweet music

Rick Lowe's Keynote Speech at the 2010 Creative Time Summit

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A worthy recipient

The Museum of Modern Art's 'The Responsive Eye' (1965)

Your responsive engagement

William Kentridge's 'The Nose' (2010)

  

A total gesamkunstwerk

Larry Gagosian

2010's most powerful

Olafur Eliasson's 'The Weather Project' (2003)

 

A transcendent beauty

James Turrell's 'Roden Crater' (1979-present)

Landscape as experience

Banksy's 'Kissing Policemen' (2006)

  

Naughty by nature

Larry Bell's 'Cube #54' (2007)

Simultaneous mirror/window

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 'Street, Dresden' (1908)

Physical/psychological alienation

Anish Kapoor's 'Memory' (2009)

Part vs. whole

John Singer Sargent's 'Madame X' (1884)

Sargent's salacious scandal

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'Ball at the Moulin de la Galette' (1876)

Impression's dappled light

Philip Johnson's 'Williams Tower' (1983)

Houston's greatest skyscraper

Caravaggio's 'Crucifixion of St. Peter' (1601)

Crass, radical realism

Joseph Beuys' 'Plight' (1958/1985)

Consuming, unsettling silence

Marcel Duchamp's 'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even' (1915-23)

Still don't understand