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Artist Birthday: Lovis Corinth (1858-1925 Germany)

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Lovis Corinth was an important transitional painter between the Romanticism and Symbolism movements of the late 1800s, and Expressionism of the early 1900s.  ...

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A Nice Frock for a hot summer day's garden party in the 1920s

Monday, July 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

Being an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...

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Artist Birthday: Raymond Pettibon (born 1957 US)

Thursday, July 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

Raymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...

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National Hot Dog Day: Art by Robert Abel (1937-2001 US)

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | Karl Cole

Because of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...

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Artist Birthday: Moshe Safdie (born 1938, Israel-Canada)

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 | Karl Cole

Moshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...

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July Interpreted by Larry Rivers (1923-2002 US)

Monday, July 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Did you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...

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How to Write for SchoolArts Magazine

Friday, July 10, 2026 | Toni Henneman

If you’ve ever thought about submitting an article but weren’t sure where to begin, this post provides a few tips to help you turn your classroom experience into a publishable article. ...

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Artist Birthday: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978 Italy)

Friday, July 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

Pioneer Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico once stated that one must look at all elements of the real world as an enigma. He made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, ...

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National Fashion Day: Art by Fernand Siméon (1884-1928 France)

Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...

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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945 Germany)

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Karl Cole

The deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...

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Artist Birthday: Gertrud Nätzler (1908-1971, US born Austria)

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

After the Arts and Crafts movement of the mid- to late-1800s, several art forms emerged with the status of fine art, because the Arts and Crafts movements stressed the artist’s touch during a pe ...

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Heat Equals Warm Colors: Art by Karel Appel (1921-2006 Netherlands)

Monday, July 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

What with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...

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Happy Summer: Art by Edward Potthast (1857-1927 US)

Monday, June 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

I’m not sure I’d want to loll around on a beach in street clothes, but, there is definitely something very relaxing about spending a day at the beach! And there is something very soothing ...

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National Coconut Day: Art by Papua New Guinean artist

Friday, June 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Coconut Day was started in 2019 by the Coconut Coalition of the Americas to publicize the many health benefits of the food, aside from as a sweet baking staple. The artists of New Guinea are ...

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Artist Birthday: John B. Storrs (1886-1956 US)

Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

John Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...

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Artist Birthday: Ricci Albenda (born 1966 US)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

During the 1960s, many artists experimented with forms of art that transformed the space in which works of art are exhibited, through lighting, placement, and installation. In the 21st century, artist ...

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