Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
The countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Through sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Artist Birthday: William Wegman
While starting out with black and white photography of banal everyday actions, William Wegman is most likely best known for his endearing work with a series of dogs. His photographs of these dogs usua ...
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December is National Pear Month
In 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared December as “National Pear Month.” I did not realize that pears have as much potassium as bananas. And they are certainly interesting a ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
What is a more common symbol of Thanksgiving than a turkey? It’s an oft-quoted myth that Ben Franklin (1706-1790) wanted the American wild turkey as the bird for the national seal of the US. He ...
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Artist Birthday: Brook Reynolds
Photographer Brook Reynolds considers her photographs of aspects of Nature to be Enso photography. Enso photographs are inspired by the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and influenced by the tra ...
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Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close. Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...
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Artist Birthday: Paa Joe
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
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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A Novembergruppe Artist: Otto Dix
The November Group (Novembergruppe) was a German group of radical, leftist-leaning artists, architects and designers who organized during the Weimar Republic after World War I (1914-1918). The group, ...
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