11.   A graphic artist takes an original photo, scans it onto a Macintosh computer and uses image-altering software to produce a trimmed-down black-and-white likeness.

12.   A year ago, on-line proponents were saying that digital downloads would eliminate the need for record companies by allowing artists to take music directly to audiences.

13.   But an artist taking on the subject of criticism?

14.   But one day, without a word of explanation and after a decade of brutal labor and emotional pain, the artist took a sledgehammer to it.

15.   By the Gothic period, artists no longer took monsters as seriously.

16.   Chinese artists take a similarly cynical view of daily existence.

17.   Even fellow artists took potshots.

18.   Hand in hand, the two artists took their bows and Eminem flashed his middle finger.

19.   In an hourlong video projected onto an ICA wall, the artists take us on a lyrical journey through vast tunnels outlined in a haze of peach and peridot.