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Autumn is Certainly Here

Monday, September 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

Raise your hand if autumn is your favorite season. My hand is raised. There are so many different interpretations of this season in art history. Rather than show trees changing color, I’m showin ...

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Artist Birthday: Roni Horn (born 1955 US)

Friday, September 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Roni Horn’s work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as wel ...

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World Maritime Day: art by Simon de Vlieger (1600/1601-1653 Netherlands)

Thursday, September 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

Starting in the late Renaissance, the Dutch republic prospered greatly off of their international maritime trade. The International Maritime Organization emphasizes World Maritime Day every year on th ...

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Artist Birthday: Julio Le Parc (1928-2026 France, born Argentina)

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

When the subject of Op Art (optical art) comes up, usually artist names such as Victor Vasarely or Bridget Riley usually spring to mind. Julio Le Parc was a pioneer of motion and light artworks starti ...

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Artist Birthday: Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978 US)

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

Alma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work!   ...

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Hispanic American Heritage Month: Carlos Rodriguez (MARE 139, born 1965 US)

Monday, September 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Hispanic American Heritage Month is 15 September to 15 October, 2026. I will say unequivocally, that there have been few if any periods in American art history that American people of Hispanic heritag ...

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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938 US)

Friday, September 18, 2026 | Karl Cole

A large part of the early body of art work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold put the “real” in Photorealism. For awhile now, she has been producing lyrical studies of landscape and nature around h ...

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Artist Birthday: Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001 US, born Hungary)

Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Karl Cole

Besides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean Arp (1886-1966 France)

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jean Arp was truly an artist who was in the right place at the right time when it came to helping discover the Dada art movement during World War I (1914-1918). His truly imaginative and unique works ...

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This Day in History 15 September, 1584: Completion of Palace of San Lorenzo el Real

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 | Karl Cole

In old timey days when secular rulers had absolute power over their subjects, it was not at all unusual for kings and queens to commission monstrous, oversized palaces (think Louis XIV and Versailles) ...

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Gem of the Month for September: Tone Vigeland (1938-2024 Norway)

Monday, September 14, 2026 | Karl Cole

Did you ever go “Wow!” when you see a certain work of art (something I do probably on a daily basis)? Well, that’s what I did when I saw the stunning jewelry by Tone Vigeland. She ha ...

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Artist Birthday: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915 Japan)

Thursday, September 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

Kiyochika Kobayashi was undoubtedly one of the late, great masters of the Ukiyo-e style in the late 1800s Japan. He brilliantly blended tradition with Western influences.    ...

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What Makes Art Curriculum High Quality?

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 | Toni Henneman

Strong art curriculum does more than provide lessons, it creates opportunities for meaningful learning. Explore the thinking behind high-quality art instruction and the approaches that help students t ...

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Artist Birthday: Robert Arneson (1930-1992 US)

Friday, September 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

Robert Arneson was part of the West Coast version of the Pop Art scene. He was also part of the studio pottery movement, which helped raise the profile of ceramics to the level of fine art. ...

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September Contemplated with Claude Monet (1840-1926 France)

Thursday, September 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

You might know I would use any excuse to show a Monet. This may be one Monet with which you are not familiar, but it is a wonderful prefiguration of his rapidly developing Impressionist style and pale ...

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Artist Birthday: Rudolf Belling (1886-1972 Germany)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

Rudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl.     ...

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