Autumn is Certainly Here
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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