Asphalt is a 1929 German silent film directed by Joe May, starring Gustav Frohlich and Betty Amann. The film centers around Else, a clever and manipulative thief, after she is caught stealing a diamond from a jeweler. She tricks Albert, the policeman taking her to prison, using crocodile tears, convincing him to take her back to her home to get her documents. Once there, she seduces him, and he no longer attempts to take her into police custody. Else feels compelled to send h

Gnaw is a Minimalist installation by Janine Antoni, formerly located at MoMA. It consists of two 600-pound cubes - one made of chocolate and one of lard, both in one room. The artist chewed on both and spit out the pieces she bit off to be repurposed for the other part of the installation. In another room is the spit-out chocolate, formed into an empty heart-shaped chocolate box, and the spit-out lard, mixed with wax and pigment and formed into lipstick tubes. Three Studies f

Die Fahne Hoch!, Frank Stella, 1959 Frank Stella’s Die Fahne hoch!  is a 121 ⅝ in x 72 13/16 in enamel painting on canvas created in 1959. Currently, this painting is kept in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This painting was made when Stella was 22 and newly living in New York, and was created as part of a series of several black paintings done with enamel paint on canvas. The negative space in these works is the bare canvas. Die Fahne Hoch! and the seri