20th century art

I won’t Arp on about this.

Questions

Wearing black clothing only on the arms and legs, what was the name of the character created by sports painter LeRoy Neiman for Playboy’s party jokes column?

FEMLIN

Formed as the Versatiles, for which band did LeRoy Neiman do the cover for their “Portrait” album? Hits includes the US no. 7 “Up, Up and Away” and the number ones “Medley: Aquarius/Let the sunshine in (The flesh failures)” and “Wedding bell blues”?

THE 5TH DIMENSION

Featuring his first wife Bella Rosenfeld, who painted “Bella with white collar” in 1917, which can now be seen in the Centre Pompidou?

MARC CHAGALL

Also known as “Woman with a fan”, in which museum can Jean Metzinger’s “Femme à l’Éventail” be found?

GUGGENHEIM, NY

Spatialism was founded by which artist in 1947, with the main ideas of it being published a year before in the “Manifiesto Blanco” in Buenos Aires?

LUCIO FONTANA

In which city was Spatialism founded by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana in 1947?

MILAN

The Greek kinetic artist Takis is perhaps best known for which 1957 work, which consists of long metal rods that bend as wind passes through them?

SIGNALS

Which work by Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich is on permanent display at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa?

THE SWIMMING POOL

Which Danish artist is known for Colour Activity House at the 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa? This is an outside building with glass panels of different colours.

OLAFUR ELIASSON

Featuring an illusion of a sun, which work by Olafur Eliasson was installed in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2003?

THE WEATHER PROJECT

Containing “Until it Sleeps”, their only top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, for which Metallica album’s artwork was Andres Serrano’s “Semen and Blood III” used?

LOAD

Which American artist was responsible for founding the Massurrealist art genre in the 1990s, with examples of his work including “The Landing” and “Untitled”, the latter containing a supermarket trolley with a windsock?

JAMES SEEHAFER

Referring to himself by his birth name of Hans when he spoke in German, in which French city was Jean Arp born, it being part of the German empire at the time?

STRASBOURG

What was the name of the Swiss artist who became Jean Arp’s wife, seen as an important figure in modern art? She died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1943 after missing the last tram home.

SOPHIE TAEUBER

A pioneer of sound poetry, which German founded the short-lived Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and had one of his poems adapted into the song “I Zimbra” from the Talking Heads album “Fear of Music”?

HUGO BALL

Considered a co-inventor of Dadaism and founding a Constructivist circle called “Das Neues Leben” with Jean Arp, in what country was Marcel Janco born, later also acquiring Israeli nationality?

ROMANIA

Born Samuel Rosenstock, which member of the Dada movement was responsible for the plays “The Gas Heart” and “Handkerchief of Clouds”? The former of these plays influenced Samuel Beckett’s “Not I”.

TRISTAN TZARA

Placed on the campus of a university in 1954, in which country can you find the largest version of a bronze sculpture by Jean Arp called “Cloud Shepherd” or “Berger des Nuages”?

VENEZUELA

Aldo Rossi

A short attempt to go beyond the simple list learning of “Which Italian won the Pritzker in 1990”? There must be a reason why he won!

Questions

Partly designed by 1990 Pritzker Prize winner Aldo Rossi, the Monte Amiata residential complex that is sometimes known as the ‘Red dinosaur’ because of its colour and unusual design, can be found in which Italian city?

MILAN

Reconstructed by Pritzker winner Aldo Rossi, what is the name of the principal opera house of Genoa, being named for a 19th century King of Sardinia?

TEATRO CARLO FELICE

Which building that was rebuilt based on a design by Aldo Rossi features in the title of the first novel of American author Donna Leon’s best-selling Commissario Brunetti mystery series?

LA FENICE

In which city can Aldo Rossi’s Bonnefantenmuseum be found, a fine art museum that refers to the popular name of a former convent which housed the museum from 1951 to 1978, with a distinctive design feature being its rocket-shaped cupola?

MAASTRICHT

What is the five-word title of a significant work written by Aldo Rossi on architectural theory, partly a criticism against modernism and an attempt to tap into the ‘collective memory’ of a place?

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY

Architecture

I always have some trouble with distinguishing New York skyscrapers and I find it surprising the Chrysler Building used bricks. Just shows my ignorance, but maybe one day I’ll want to try and understand why.

Questions

An art museum in which American city contains Santiago Calatrava’s Quadracci Pavilion, which contains a massive brise soleil that opens up during the day?

MILWAUKEE

American architect Albert Mayer is best known for his plan of which city, that was built upon and carried out by a more famous name?

CHANDIGARH

Being born in the port town of Dabou, with which country’s architecture is Pierre Fakhoury most associated?

COTE D’IVOIRE

Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye is responsible for which building in Oslo that finds itself situated on City Hall Square?

NOBEL PEACE CENTER

Part of the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 2016, what is probably the most visited work by David Adjaye?

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

David Adjaye was responsible for which purpose-built international visual arts centre in the London district of Shoreditch?

RIVINGTON PLACE

David Adjaye’s work includes which Moscow School of Management, part of an area that has been dubbed as a ‘Russian Silicon Valley’?

SKOLKOVO

Referring to what the walls supposedly resemble, what nickname does the Norman Foster designed Lippo Centre in Hong Kong have?

THE KOALA TREE

The Lippo Centre was seen as the headquarters of the Hanko Corporation in which 2017 live-action film that was directed by Rupert Sanders, who was also responsible for “Snow White and the Huntsman”?

GHOST IN THE SHELL

The Lippo Centre was seen in the Dockside track in the 2004 arcade-style racing game “Burnout 3”, which carries what subtitle and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time, especially in that genre?

TAKEDOWN

The Lippo Centre was seen in which 1991 Jean Claude Van Damme film which saw him re-unite with Bolo Yeung after their collaboration in “Bloodsport”?

DOUBLE IMPACT

In which Spanish city did Peter Eisenman lead a team to create its ‘City of Culture’, with the buildings supposed to look like rolling hills?

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

House VI or the Frank residence is a Peter Eisenman deconstructivist work in the tiny town of Cornwall in which American state? It has become famous for its revolutionary concept of a house, as well as the difficulty of using it as such.

CONNECTICUT

The Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and Flatiron Building are all considered to be examples of which architectural style, whose name comes from a 1925 exhibition held in Paris?

ART DECO

The Chrysler Building can be found at the intersection of 42nd Street and which avenue, with perhaps the most famous scene taking place here being Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt in “The Seven Year Itch”?

LEXINGTON AVENUE

Also giving his name to a luxury apartment block on the Brighton seafront, which architect’s most famous work by far is the Chrysler Building?

WILLIAM VAN ALEN

Briefly the talllest building in the world in 1930 before the Chrysler Building surpassed it in height, how is 40 Wall Street popularly known after the individual whose company leased it in 1995?

THE TRUMP BUILDING