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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: 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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National Kissing Day: Art by Janine Antoni (born 1962 Bahamas-US)

Monday, June 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

Kisses for National Kissing Day in a incredibly ingenious and unique work by the fabulous Conceptual artist Janine Antoni. Antoni is known for her unusual processes, using her body as both a tool and ...

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Artist Birthday: Amanda Means (born 1950 US)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

Just as artists in many different media have, in the 21st  century, discovered even more novel ways to use these media in personal expression, so too have photographers, who many decades ago aban ...

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Artist Birthday: Wolfgang Laib (born 1950 Germany)

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Inspired by the teachings of the ancient Taoist philosopher Laozi, Wolfgang Laib creates sculptures that seem to connect that past and present, the ephemeral and the eternal. Working with perishable o ...

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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...

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Artist Birthday: James Siena

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

James Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Óscar Muñoz

Monday, September 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great artistic heritage of Mexico, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and So ...

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Artist Birthday: Albert Oehlen

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Albert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...

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Artist Birthday: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Monday, July 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Since the beginning of the 2000s, contemporary art of Thai artists has taken a prominent role in world art history. Rirkrit Tiravanija is renowned for his installations and sculptures that address num ...

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National Pink Day: Art by CERN

Monday, June 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Throughout the world, artists are making urban spaces, and just any drab blank building walls—interior and exterior—dynamic and full of positive energy with murals, i.e. street art. Street ...

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Artist Birthday: Raymond Pettibon

Monday, June 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Art history is full of examples of the cultural preoccupation with the use of written language within the visual arts field—from illustrated scrolls of ancient Egypt to the Pop Art obsession wit ...

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National Love a Tree Day: Sylvia P. Mangold

Friday, May 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Mangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...

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International Families Day: Alice Mizrachi

Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

During the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...

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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig

Thursday, April 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter who has lived in Canada, London, Trinidad for 20 years, and now back in London. He focuses on both landscapes and figures, melding art historical and personal referenc ...

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Black History Month: Cey Adams

Monday, February 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Throughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...

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