LGBTQ+ History Month: Richmond Barthé
I think it is important to always keep in mind that LGBTQ pride did not “begin” with the Stonewall Riots of 1969—a series of protests by members of the gay community in response to a ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta was an internationally renowned fashion designer who established a personal aesthetic that combined European couture elegance with practical ready-to-wear forms. He is best known for ...
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Lari Pittman
The 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month series continues with the work of Lari Pittman. Pittman’s complex works examine fantastic, personal narratives about love, sex, death, religion, citizenship, and ...
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A Visual Tribute to Labor Day Week 2022
Aside from the myth of Sunday as a “day of rest” in the West, it’s interesting to me that there is only one day a year that celebrates “labor” in the U.S. The movement to ...
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Romance Awareness Month 2022
I happen to be a romantic slob at heart, and when the subject of “romance” comes up, works of art that I think characterize the concept naturally spring to mind. The following works may no ...
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Summertime with John Henry Twachtman
I know that summer started in June, but I always feel as if summer isn’t really here until the 4th of July weekend. Let's rejoice over that fact with an artist who is often left out of ...
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Pride Month 2022: Robert Mapplethorpe
Part of a glittering gay culture of New York in the late 1970s and 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe is most remembered for his photographs of male nudes. However, his body of work was not restricted to any ...
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Art for Juneteenth 2022: Sargent Johnson
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, originating in Galveston, Texas, in 1865. Let’s celebrate the achievements of African Ame ...
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Caribbean American Heritage Month: Abelardo Morell
Caribbean peoples have had a major impact on culture in the Americas since forever, and that holds especially true in the arts. ...
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Pride Month 2022: Fairfield Porter
Let’s start June with a focus on the work of Fairfield Porter, an artist who matured during the period dominated by Abstract Expressionism in American art. It was also a period in which being ga ...
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