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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist

Yoko Ono

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Japanese artist and musician

Meret Oppenheim

Swiss artist

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Francis Alÿs

Belgian-born conceptual artist

Eduardo Kac

Brazilian American artist

Schneemann, Carolee

Carolee Schneemann

American multimedia artist

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Serbian performance artist

Burden, Chris

Chris Burden

American performance and installation artist and sculptor

Allan Kaprow

American artist

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

British artist

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist

Solange

Solange

American singer, songwriter and actress

Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman

American comedian, actor, and performance artist

Adrian Piper

American conceptual and performance artist

Laurie Anderson

American performance artist and author

Tania Bruguera: The Burden of Guilt

Tania Bruguera

Cuban performance artist

Jackson Mac Low

American composer, poet, and performance artist

Lisa Anne Auerbach

American artist

Dan Graham

American artist

Tino Sehgal

British-born artist