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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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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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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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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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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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Artist Birthday: Scott Burton (1939-1989 US)

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Scott Burton was an ingenious sculptor/furniture maker who established a unique body of work that functioned as both sculpture and furniture. Burton’s sculpture-installations often functioned as ...

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Artist Birthday: Thomas Sully (1783-1872 US, born Britain)

Friday, June 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

After the dominance of classical revival mania in American art during the Revolution (1775-1783) and Federal periods, a softened, more dramatic realism emerged in the form of the Grand Manner Style. T ...

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Artist birthday: Mira Schendel (1919-1988 Brazil, born Switzerland)

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 | Karl Cole

Mira Schendel was a painter, sculptor and poet. Her pensive, delicate works (particularly on paper), along with those of her contemporary Brazilian artists Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica ( ...

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