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What architect designed the first air-conditioned office building in America, although the city of Buffalo demolished it in 1950 to put up a parking lot? | Frank Lloyd Wright | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
What artist showed the title author wearing a striped smock in a portrait he made of her at agesixty? | Nadar | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What artist used an oilcloth stamped with a chair-caning pattern in a work painted on an oval canvas that includes a foldedpiece of paper inscribed with the three letters "JOU," which might refer to the word "journal" or to the verb "to play."? | Pablo Picasso | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What composer's third Symphony opens with an impressive array of gongs and cymbals into a staggered bass accompaniment? | Virgil Thomson | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
The composer of what symphony initially marked its finale "Allegro Guerriero," or "fast and warlike," before changing it to "Allegro Vivacissimo."? | Scottish Symphony | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
The title song of what musician's 3rst album, adapted from Richard Rodgers, opens with improvisations on "Good King Wenceslas" before instructing the listener to "count your raindrops."? | Nina Simone | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
At the left of what painting, three sticks lean against each other in pyramid fashion next to a open barrel whose bottom half is buried in the ground? | The Stages of Life | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
One of these buildings is located near a pair of ocean rocks joined by a braided rope, and that example of what form is topped by slotted wooden finials called chigi and separated by short wooden logs running perpendicular to the roof's ridge? | Shinto shrines | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
One work named for what figure includes thin-necked lions at the corner of each pediment and an acroter decorated with woman-headed eagles? | Alexander the Great | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
Bruno Walter created an arrangement of what piece which uses a piano four-hands? | Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D-major | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What man's best friend and co-architect late in life was Antoni Pitxot? | Salvador Dali i Domenech | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
What artist's bookplate features a spilled ink-bottle splashing across a notebook page? | Claes Oldenburg | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What church's faASSade is topped by a bust of God the Father sporting a triangular halo? | Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
A limestone house altar uses bas-relief to depict the namesake of what object holding her two daughters, rendered extremely small, underneath a shining sun? | the Nefertiti bust | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
A sculpture by what artist will be donated to Paris as an act of solidarity and remembrance for the terror attacks; that work by this artist is called Bouquet of Tulips? | Jeff Koons | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
A triangle is formed by dead logs across the ground and tall trees tilting towards each other alongthe sides in what painter's In the Woods? | Asher Brown Durand | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
A portrait what artist exhibited at the 1889 Salon des Independants was nicknamed "Dwarf with the Enormous Head" by the press? | Henri Julien Felix Rousseau | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What composer was derided by critics as a "futurist" who created a "Babel of insane sounds" afterthe premiere of his second piano concerto, written in the memory of Maximilian Schmidt? | Sergei Prokofiev | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What composer had the piano play in a high register above the strings to evoke the sound of a music box, in the Afth of elevenvariations appearing in the second movement of an A minor piece beginning with a movement marked "pezzo elegiaco."? | Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
The second harp plays a solo with the mandolin starting with accented quarter notes two bars after a D-minor to D-major key change in what piece? | Symphony of a Thousand | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In the second movement of what composer's violin concerto, the soloist opens with a held rolled chord, followed by three loud, dissonant pizzicato chords also played by the cellos and basses? | Igor Stravinsky | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
Efforts in what opera to lift the title character's spirits include the piano-accompanied "Lieben, hassen" and a quartet sung by four men with a coloratura soprano descant? | Ariadne auf Naxos | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
In the bottom left of what painting, an emaciated dog gnaws at the face of a child, and a king lies slumped under a figure holding an hourglass while his gold coins are stolen? | The Triumph of Death | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
One work in what location shows Pope Gregory IX in a niche holding a volume of canon law on one side and Justinian being given his law code? | Stanza della Segnatura | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
Two recordings of what work made 23 years apart, under John Barbirolli and Simon Rattle, both featured Janet Baker as a figure who sings the line "You cannot now / cherish a wish which ought to be wished" in a duet with the tenor soloist? | The Dream of Gerontius | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In the first performance of the opera in which what action occurs, it was changed so that Giuseppe Lolli would have time to change costumes and play a different character in the epilogue? | Don Giovanni being dragged to hell | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
What piece's composer rewrote it to feature a solo pianist, penning a new extensive cadenza for piano and timpani for its first movement? | Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D-major | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In one of what director's films, newsreel footage from the Spanish Civil War is interspersed with a scene of Ignat reading a letter? | Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
One structure built by what society includes a circular room and an almost spiral one in an area called the Bailey, which sits on an incline equal to its latitude? | Indus Valley Civilization | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
What material is entirely exposed on the interior of Max Berg's Centennial Hall in Breslau? | reinforced concrete | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
The male lead in what opera repeats that he is "cheating fancy bright with golden wings" in the aria "Prendre le dessin d'unbijou."? | Lakme | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
The "old deep-rooted prejudice" of the "line" is argued to be the "physiological origin" of what movement in an article by the Uruguayan poet Jules Laforgue? | Impressionism | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
Stella Vine rose to fame through portraits of a person with what first name, the best known of which is titled Hi Paul can you come over I'm really frightened? | Diana | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What man's biographer Marshall Fine claims he wrote a full length novel to provide the backstory for characters in a film he directed? | John Cassavetes | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
What composer wrote a Canto Serioso for horn and piano and dedicated one of his works for chorus and orchestra to the "Young Merchant's Society."? | Carl Nielsen | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
Allen Jones created a 1970 sculpture with what title depicting a woman lying on her back with her legs in the air? | chairs | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
The final portion of what work's middle section, which suggests the influence of Debussy's Homage to Rameau, ends with an instruction that it be played "without expression."? | Gaspard de la nuit | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
One series of works by what composer features such titles as "Versatility" and "The New Classicism," those Satires were written four years before this composer's Folksongs for Chorus? | Arnold Schoenberg | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
n the fourth and nal movement of an F minor piece composed for what ensemble, a fugue climaxes on an unresolved C major chord followed by a bar of silence, then a return of the piece's opening theme? | piano four hands | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
Pieces of what type make up entries C32 through C48 in the Ernest Warburton Catalog of the works of Johann Christian Bach? | sinfonia concertante | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
An operatic title character with what occupation sings the aria "Je t'implore et je tremble" (zhay tam-plore ay zhay trahm-bluh) while preparing to execute a captive? | priestess | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
After his 1652 death, four composers wrote tombeaux for a player of what instrument named Blancrocher [blawn-croh-SHAY]? | lutes | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What choreographer often worked with the video artist Charles Atlas, and was the subject of Atlas's documentary A Lifetime of Dance? | Merce Cunningham | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
One song on what album has a twelve bar bridge that switches from four/four to three/four totwo/four to three/four to six/four and back to four/four time? | Birth of the Cool | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
One artist from what country sent soldiers parodic care packages with bourgeois items like fancy dresswear and tea samples? | Germany | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
In 1971, Mario Roymans stole what painting and tried to ransom it using the name "Tilj ["till"] van Limburg" to raise money for victims of the Bangladeshi genocide? | The Love Letter | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What artist painted an unusual lunette-shaped Annunciation scene with an illuminated lilac background that was changedinto a rectangle by adding night-blue drapery to the corners? | Andrea del Sarto | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
George Bataille theorized that what artwork is about the loss of narrative, which is effective since its source of power is a "feeling of suppression [that] prevails."? | Olympia | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
On the right hand side of what painting, two angels hold rods that support a white and gold canopy, near which another angel blows on two horns? | The Disembarkation at Marseilles | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
The finale to one opera by what man derives tunes from music to Gehe's Heinrich IV? | Carl Maria von Weber | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
One part of what work depicts vultures in clerical collars holding keys, while another of its sections depicts a schoolhouse, a barn, and a town meeting behind a woman surrounded by expressionless children? | The Epic of American Civilization | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
The opening tin whistle solo to what work's second movement is typically played by the piccolo instead? | Billy the Kid | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
What man illustrated a 1930 edition of Apollonaire's Calligrammes? | Giorgio de Chirico | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What work originally contained a soprano line setting Stefan George's translation of Baudelaire's poem De Profundis Clamavi in its final movement marked Largo Desolato? | Lyric Suite | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
What artist created six relief sculptures that use black, gold, Neapolitan, spectrum, metalflake, and black and white shades to convey the form of the Guggenheim Museum? | Richard Hamilton | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
What man's writings include the unfinished novel M. Dudron's Adventure? | Giorgio de Chirico | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
A chef in what Afilm justiAfies cooking with regular salt, despite a lady's request for sea salt, because he'll "put up with diets,not fads."? | The Rules of the Game | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
Giovanni Lanfranco's The Messenger's Return depicts a shirtless man carrying what food, a nod tothe motif of the Israelites carrying it out of Canaan? | grapes | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
A cortA"ge by what composer opens with trumpets and cornets playing C-flat octaves in a veryrhythmic double-dotted 8th, 32nd, quarter, 8th-8th-8th-8th, followed by A-flat minor chords from thewhole orchestra in the same rhythm? | Jules Massenet | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
One critic realized that what movement's name was not just a label, like Cubism, and not a slogan, like Futurism, but a combination of both, and Reyner Banham later expanded an essay on this movement into a book whose title asks "Ethic or Aesthetic?"? | The New Brutalism | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
A dwarf holds what man's gold and black helmet in a portrait by Gaspar de Crayer? | Philip IV of Spain | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
In a ballet created in what present-day country, an amnesiac girl is taken captive at the Blue Grotto after a storm but later escapes with her beloved, the fisherman Gennaro? | Denmark | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
One of what composer's piano pieces repeats four-beat rhythmic units four times, each time accelerating the tempo of thenotes, from single quarter, to dotted eighths, to bundles of sixteenth notes? | Aram Khachaturian | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
The xylophone enters in the first movement of what composer's second cello concerto playing repeated Es with the harp? | Dimitri Shostakovich | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What artist included paintings of such scenes as Via Dolorosa, Mount Arbel, and The Wailing Wall in his series Impressions from Israel? | Thomas Kinkade | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
The Fantasia first movement of what composer's solo cello sonata opens with a slow all-interval tetrachord pizzicato arpeggio and features a short-long falling minor third motif? | George Crumb | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In one of what director's films, the camera pans in a slow circle as a little girl impatiently discusses the death of her mother with her uncle Johannes, who believes he's Jesus Christ? | Carl | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
A minor ninth kicks oEURff one piece for what many instruments, whose moderato central section instructs the players to usethe point of a bow? | sixth | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
Though not originally written in English, what opera is usually performed in America in Norman Kelley's English translation? | Hansel and Gretel | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
What composer's opus 2 ends with an unusual 26-bar pedal point on low D played below a combination of a waltz melody and a fragment from the "Grandfather's Dance," which this composer also quoted to symbolize pedantry in the final piece of his Opus 9? | Robert Schumann | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
A "multiple" variant of what instrument was designed for Benjamin Britten's church parable The Burning Fiery Furnace, inluenced by a Japanese instrument called the shakubyoshi (SHAH-koo-BYOH-shee)? | whip | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
Cornelius Cardew attacked John Cage and what composer in a polemic whose title claims that he "serves imperialism."? | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In a work by what artist, a lady with a parasol sits on a stone ledge that wraps around an inlet of water, where several ships are docked? | Berthe Morisot | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
The second movement of what piece ends with two arpeggiated diminished-seventh chords--the first pianissimo, the second fortissimo--before the third movement is played attacca? | "Appassionata" Sonata | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
After viewing what painting at the Salon d'Automne, Isaac Grunewald proclaimed, "suddenly I stood in front a wall that sang, no screamed, color and radiated light" and joined the school of its painter? | The Dessert: Harmony in Red | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
During what decade, one designer summarized his new creations with the phrase "I have designed flower women." The first "fashion week" in the world was held in New York during this decade? | the 1940s | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
What man used portions of the Book of Genesis in his work Sarah Was Ninety Years Old? | Arvo Part | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What composer has the singer repeatedly interrupt with triplet "la la la"s in a song about "Scaramouche and Pulcinella." This composer played piano on four recordings of his songs with soprano Mary Garden in 1904? | (Achille-)Claude Debussy | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In one of what work's high points, the orchestra plays triple forte and cowbells punctuate a changeof key from B minor to B major? | Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A minor | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
Just before the recapitulation of the first movement of a work in what form by this composer, the principal theme in C major gives way to an E major folk dance, then an E minor variation, before returning to the original C major theme? | string quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
One of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts compares a melody from what symphony's first movement to a person yelling "I want it!? | Pyotr Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 4 | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In one of what director's films, his wife appeared as the woman pining for a circus strongman playedby Anthony Quinn; in another, his wife played Masina, a charming prostitute, in (*)) Nights ofCabiria? | Federico Fellini | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
Two women with long, fleshy legs engage in what activity in a series of paintings inspired by watching television by Willem de Kooning? | Singing | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
William Kinderman's book about what work traces its compositional history and identifies late sketches for it in the Engel- mann Sketchbook? | the Diabelli Variations | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
In the 1970s, Kazuko Miyamoto used only nails and what material to create a series of so-called "constructions." Many minimalist sculptures by Fred Sandback use this material to outline basic three-dimensional forms? | string | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
Pauline Kael compared what film to Joyce's "Ulysses" in her advanced review of its three hour rough-cut? | Nashville | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
The right panel of what artist's Two Exemplary Women from Antiquity is usually read as a depiction of Sophonisba drinking poisoned wine? | Andrea Mantegna | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
Modal notation was developed in what modern-day country in the 12th century as a means of notating rhythm? | France | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
At the ends of roads extending from what building, traffic circle pioneer EugA"ne HA(c)nard proposed building memorial columns to Victor Hugo and Louis Pasteur in order to match the one at the Vendome? | Paris OpA(c)ra | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
Much of the second section of what work is played in triple time? | The Dream of Gerontius | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
Minor details of what artwork include a half-submerged horse with lippers crawling onto the shore and the head of an elephant coming out of the ground? | The Saltcellar of Francis I | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Other |
A "schizo-eclectic" piece from what country is subtitled "Say sea, take me!" in reference to the influence of Debussy's La mer on the composer? | Japan | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What director's most succesful silent film was about the Rainbow Division unit in World War I, andends with Jim Apperson and the French girl Melisande reuniting? | King Vidor | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
What artist created a portrait of his aged mother sitting near a ruined abbey which, like many of his other photocollages, includes the tips of this artist's feet at the bottom of the image? | David Hockney | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
Catherina Bolnes hid what painting after its artist's death to prevent its seizure by creditors? | The Art of Painting | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Visual |
One of these works by what composer, in B-flat minor, has the pianist play a near-perpetualtremolo in the center of the keyboard while spinning the melody and bass-line on either side of it;that work depicts the falling snow? | Franz Liszt's etudes | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
After what man's family dubbed a portrait of him by Theobald Chartran the "Mewing Cat," this man had that portrait destroyed? | Theodore Roosevelt | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
The 3rst critical biography of what composer was published in 2016 and written by John Harley? | Thomas Tallis | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Auditory |
What director began one scene by iris*ing in from a giant spinning wheel to show a crowd of people entering a carnival, where one of the protagonists chases an escaped piglet? | F | Fine Arts | Fine Arts Audiovisual |
Thomas Jefferson had a bust of what figure in Monticello on the first floor in the Entrance Hall? | Voltaire | Fine Arts | Fine Arts - Misc |
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