E is best: destroy pre-existing boundaries and exhibit both fearlessness and economy of expression

Termite art," a term coined by film critic Manny Farber, refers to artworks that, unlike bloated and commercial "white elephant art," destroys pre-existing boundaries, exhibits fearlessness, and economy of expression.

A) destroys pre-existing boundaries, exhibits fearlessness, and economy of expression : Wrong artworks denote plural subject hence destroys and exhibits are wrong verb forms. Also, economy of expression lacks the parallelism other are verb + noun and economy of expression is noun phrase.
B) destroys pre-existing boundaries, exhibits fearlessness, and also shows economy of expression : same as above
C) destroy pre-existing boundaries, exhibits fearlessness, and economy of expression : Exhibits wrong
D) destroying pre-existing boundaries and exhibiting both fearlessness and economy of expression : changes the meaning also simple verb form preferred over continuous "ing" form.
E) destroy pre-existing boundaries and exhibit both fearlessness and economy of expression : correct it has corrected all the above mentioned errors.

'destroy' subject is 'artworks' which is plural therefore the verb 'destroy' should be plural so option A, B, and D is out. C again takes the verb 'exhibits' in singular which is wrong therefore only correct option is 'E'.

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