Ten women who ruled the screen from the 1930s to the 1950s, turning the studio system's manufactured glamour into an art form, and sometimes into power. Between the arrival of sound at the end of the 1920s and the collapse of the studio system in the late 1950s, Hollywood ran on the star.

Ten painters who, from a single gallery in Port-au-Prince, turned Haiti into one of the most original art nations of the 20th century. In May 1944 an American watercolorist named DeWitt Peters, sent to Haiti to teach English, opened a small gallery and workshop in Port-au-Prince and called it Le Centre d'Art.

Ten women whose painting, sculpture, and photography did not join the canon so much as rebuild it. For most of its history the story of modern art was told as a line of men handing genius to one another, from Impressionism to Cubism to the New York School.

Ten leading men, from the swashbuckler to the mumbler, who taught the movies how a hero should look and sound. For roughly three decades, from the arrival of sound to the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood ran on a simple and ruthless idea: the star.

Ten painters who took art off the easel and onto the public wall, from Mexico City to Detroit to the flood channels of Los Angeles. When the guns of the Mexican Revolution fell silent, a new minister of education named José Vasconcelos handed the country's painters something no gallery could offer: walls.

Ten silversmiths, blacksmiths, and sculptors who spent the twentieth century proving that iron and silver could think, sing, and startle. The twentieth century should have been the death of the metalsmith.

Ten decorators who turned arranging a room into a profession and a language, from de Wolfe's open windows to Putman's black-and-white hotels. At the start of the 20th century there was no such job as interior decorator.