Breaking traditions: 1850-1909. The Bathers, Gustave Courbet ; Art inventions ; Olympia, Edouard Manet ; Manet and Modern art ; The Kiss, Auguste Rodin ; Photography ; The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh ; Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring, James Ensor ; The Scream, Edvard Munch ; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin ; Nuda Veritas, Gustav Klimt ; Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Pablo Picasso ; The influence of African art --
The horrors of war: 1910-1926. Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), Egon Schiele ; Composition V, Wassily Kandinsky ; Synaesthesia ; Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Umberto Boccioni ; Revolution! ; Black Square, Kazimir Malevich ; Fountain, Marcel Duchamp ; Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, Hannah Hoch ; Spirituality ; Skat Players (Card-Playing War Cripples), Otto Dix ; Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue, Piet Mondrian ; De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism ; Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, Max Ernst ; Black Iris, Georgia O'Keefe --
Conflict and degeneracy: 1927-1955. The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali ; The Doll, Hans Bellmer ; Degenerate art ; The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo ; The Second World War ; Dhotel Nuance D'Abricot, Jean Dubuffet ; Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist), Jackson Pollock ; Erased de Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg ; Experimentation ; Untitled Anthropometry (Ant 106), Yves Klein ; Artist's Shit, Piero Manzoni --
Commercialism and protest: 1956-1989. Concetto Spaziale, Lucio Fontana ; Brillo Boxes, Andy Warhol ; Materialism ; Pop and high culture ; Equivalent VIII, Carl Andre ; Anatomic Explosion on Wall Street, Yayoi Kusama ; New materials ; Trademarks, Vito Acconci ; Rhythm O, Marina Abramovic ; The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago ; Feminism ; Arroz con Pollo, Jean-Michel Basquat ; Nan One Month After Being Battered, Nan Goldin ; Immersion (Piss Chris), Andres Serrano ; Untitled (Your Body is a Battle Ground), Barbara Kruge ; Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum?, Guerrilla Girls --
Beyond the frame: 1990-present. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Damien Hirst ; Light Sentence, Mona Hatoum ; Propped, Jenny Saville ; Untitled (House), Rachel Whiteread ; Installations ; Globalization ; Yo Mama's Last Supper, Renee Cox ; La Nona Ora, Maurizio Cattelan ; Cell XXVI, Louise Bourgeois ; Svayambh, Anish Kapoor ; Tatlin's Whisper #5, tania Bruguera ; Performance art ; Computerization ; A Subtlety, Kara Walker ; Love is in the Bin (Girl with Balloon), Banksy --