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Who Knew? Healthcare can be an Art Subject Matter II

Monday, February 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

Healthcare, medicine costs, insurance, etc. have been a hot topic for a long time, and a lot of the problems have consistently not changed for the better. Another thing about healthcare that has not c ...

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Artist Birthday: Paa Joe

Friday, November 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Apprenticed to a coffin-maker at the age of 12, Paa Joe became one of the most honored Ghanaian coffin or abebuu adekai (“proverb boxes”) artists of his generation. ...

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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri

Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

Sculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...

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National Food Day: Claes Oldenburg

Friday, October 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

One artist who undoubtedly symbolizes the Pop Art movement’s glorification of American culture by far the most in his subjects of everyday foods was Claes Oldenburg. His first installation/perfo ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt

Friday, September 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...

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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz

Friday, August 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...

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August Is National Dog Month: Kofun Period

Monday, August 11, 2025 | Karl Cole

I am not a “cat person” at all, but I absolutely love doggies of all sorts, big and small. I get my almost weekly dose of cuteness when I visit my sister-in-law and brother-in-law and get ...

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Artist Birthday: George Rickey

Friday, June 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Rickey evolved from a painter with a love of history, to a kinetic artist who transformed stainless steel into lyrical, mesmerizing, precisely calibrated moving sculptures. Kinetic sculpture be ...

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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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Artist Birthday: Marisol

Thursday, May 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Marisol Escobar was one of the few women artists’ names associated with Pop Art. While she was renowned for her sculptures of celebrities and politicians, her anonymous figure sculptures contain ...

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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: John Chamberlain

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

John Chamberlain was part of the constructed steel sculpture movement that blossomed following World War II (1939–1945). Constructed sculpture had been experimental before the war, and became th ...

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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

Claes Oldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). ...

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Quiriguá

Monday, September 16, 2024 | Karl Cole

National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th to October 15th) has started. I would like to kick off the month-long celebration with one of the most spectacular cultures of Mesoamerica, the Maya. A ...

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Gem of the Month: Robert Hudson

Monday, September 11, 2023 | Karl Cole

Robert Hudson’s birthday was on the 8th of September, and seeing this piece again made me elect him to my vaunted Gem of the Month club. His art is part of the West Coast assemblage phenomenon t ...

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Marisol

Monday, October 4, 2021 | Karl Cole

Central and South American artists who moved to America during the 1900s made important contributions to the evolution of modern art in America, from Minimalism and Op Art to Pop Art and total abstrac ...

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