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Smarthistory is working to provide essays and videos on the 250 objects that are part of the new AP art-history curriculum, launching fall 2015. We have eighteen objects left ranging from prehistoric to contemporary work. If you are interested in contributing a brief introductory essay on one of these, please drop us an email: drszucker@gmail.com and beth.harris@gmail.com.

Here’s what missing (images can be found on this list):

• Apollo 11 Cave Stones (State Museum Namibia)
• Running horned woman, 6000–4000 BCE, Algeria
• Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux, France, 15,000–13,000 BCE
• Anthropomorphic stele (El-Maakir-Qaryat al-Kaafa), fourth millennium BCE (Riyadh)
• Terracotta fragment, Lapita, Solomon Islands, Reef Islands, 1000 BCE (University of Auckland
• Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000), 1994 (MNZM/Museum of New Zealand)
• Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1997
• Magdalena Abakanowicz, Androgyne III, 1985, burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Portrait mask (Mblo), Baule peoples (Côte d’Ivoire), late nineteenth or early twentieth century
• Lukasa (memory board), Mbudye Society, Luba peoples, (DR Congo), ca. nineteenth or early twentieth century
• Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, Kamakura Period, Japan, ca. 1250–1300 CE (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Ambum Stone, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1500 BCE (National Gallery of Australia)
• Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Micronesia, Saudeleur Dynasty. ca. 700–1600 CE
• ‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape), Hawaiian, late eighteenth century
• Tamati Waka Nene, Gottfried Lindauer, 1890 CE, oil on canvas
• Malagan display and mask, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, ca. twentieth century (University Museum, Pennsylvania)

We are also looking for contributions from art historians on other broadly taught topics.