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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

Unequaled among the German Expressionists are the gritty, powerfully heart-felt drawings, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz. Much of her subject matter concerned working class women, mot ...

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Lost Dog Awareness Day: Giacometti

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

On April 23, 2014, Lost Dogs of America created and launched the first National Lost Dog Awareness Day (NLDAD), a canine-focused day aimed to bring attention to all dogs that are lost each year, while ...

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Artist Birthday: Neo Rauch

Friday, April 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Leipzig-based Neo Rauch is part of the generation of German artists who revitalized German painting starting in the late 1900s. His work is a combination of late East German Socialist Realism, opera-l ...

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International Dance Day 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024 | Karl Cole

I cannot think of a more joyous April sendoff than art that features dancing in celebration of International Dance Day. The International Theater Institute began International Dance Day on April 29, 1 ...

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Celebrating People with Disability Pride Month

Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | Karl Cole

July is Disability Pride Month! This annual observance is used to promote visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people with disabilities. To celebrate this important month ...

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A Realism Backlash? Modern Art Heads

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 | Karl Cole

After the horrors experienced by Europeans in World War I (1914–1918), the brakes were more or less put on to the prevailing trend towards modernism and abstraction, although certainly many arti ...

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A Forgotten Woman Artist: Gwen John

Monday, January 30, 2012 | Karl Cole

I always like to introduce you to artists who, I think, have been marginalized in “official” art history surveys of western (or non-western for that matter) art. Because Paris was has been ...

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African American History Month 2010: William Henry Johnson

Monday, February 15, 2010 | Karl Cole

The first time I saw the paintings of William H. Johnson, they were works from his expressionist period, the first time he lived in Europe (1926–1929). Needless to say, it was one of those &ldqu ...

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Expressionist Architecture: Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint

Monday, May 4, 2009 | Karl Cole

Every now and then (actually on a weekly basis), I come across a “Holy Cow!” work of art in our image collection that I either never noticed before or had not seen in a really long time. U ...

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