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Traditionally, modern art has been organized, separated, and discussed at great length by time period and movement. We won't be doing that. These videos will instead look at art by theme. Places and spaces. Art and identity. Transforming everyday objects. And art and society. These themes in an attempt to bridge the gap between modern art and you. I think the modern art can meet you where you are and allows you to work with what you already know, which says, interestingly, as much about you or me as it does about the artist himself. This is going to be pictures, there's going to be these people, there's love, there's death, there's this guy, there's this thing, there's a chainsaw. This is why this museum, This is why this subject is so rich, because there's such diversity in it. If you find a foothold and get started, you're never going to finish. It's going to be another way to look at modern art. Suddenly it opens up a greater dialogue about connections not only between the works of art, but to things that we already know. It just gives you another entry point to really engage with. The art that you're seeing.