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Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)

Friday, February 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Eleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...

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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas

Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

The countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...

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Artist Birthday: William Wegman

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

While starting out with black and white photography of banal everyday actions, William Wegman is most likely best known for his endearing work with a series of dogs. His photographs of these dogs usua ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Long

Monday, June 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Richard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...

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Gardens for April

Monday, April 6, 2020 | Karl Cole

I’m pretty sure we all need some artistic diversions right now with the way things are in the world. April is not only National Garden Month, but it is also National Landscape Architecture Month ...

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Women's (Art) History Month: Pablita Velarde, Barbara Crane, and Star of Bethlehem Quilts

Monday, March 30, 2020 | Karl Cole

I'm wrapping up Women’s History Month 2020 with a First Nations artist, a pioneering photographer, and an art form that was finally acknowledged as such in the late 1900s. ...

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The Iconoclast (?): Zhan Wang

Monday, September 18, 2017 | Karl Cole

It would probably take me forever to be able to say that I had “seen it all” in the world of art. You know the old expression, “just when you thought you’d seen it all,” ...

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