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Wednesday Art Idol

Barbara Kruger: the legendary US artist who always speaks her mind

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Katsushika Hokusai, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife from Kinoe no Komatsu, ca. 1814

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Hokusai: erotic woodprints and eternal visions of Mount Fuji

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John Akomfrah: the British artist exploring memory and migration through film

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

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Edward Hopper: the painter who inspired Hitchcock and Lynch with his portrayal of urban isolation

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Michael Craig-Martin: mentor of the YBA’s who redefined our relationship with the everyday

Ryoji Ikeda, the transfinite, 2011, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view.

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Ryoji Ikeda: the Japanese audio-visual artist creating moments of transcendent wonder

Antony Gormley, Another Place, 1997 © Antony Gormley. All Rights Reserved

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Antony Gormley: mapping the internal void

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Francisco Goya: The Spanish artist who painted the darkest recesses of humanity

Video still of “Ever Is Over All,” from 1997.Photograph © P. Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine

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Pippilotti Rist: the feminist icon of video art collaging grainy MTV clips and online porn

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #92, 1981, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures

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Cindy Sherman: subverting the voyeuristic male gaze with beauty and violence

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Yayoi Kusama: psychedelic dreams of self-obliteration