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Artist Birthday: Tim Hetherington

Friday, December 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

Tim Hetherington was a bold photojournalist who documented the war in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2008 in the Koragal Valley, where 70 per cent of American bombs were falling when he covered that ...

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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas

Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

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

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

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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Happy Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

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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Native American Heritage Month

Monday, November 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

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: William Trost Richards

Friday, November 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

There is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...

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Artist Birthday: Neil Jenney

Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

Painter Neil Jenney has been part of what the Whitney Museum called in 1978 New Image Painting. It is neither Pop-oriented or abstract. Jenney’s work emphasizes vigorous, exciting brush work ...

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Artist Birthday: Anders Ruhwald

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

Anders Ruhwald is an artist whose works blur the line between sculpture and design. One of his key interests is in the contrasting of textures of different materials. ...

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Artist Birthday: Chris (DAZE) Ellis

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

Chris (DAZE) Ellis was part of the earliest group of American street artists to successfully transition to a career painting on canvas. He is also part of the generation of street artists who help ...

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Artist Birthday: Homer Dodge Martin

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

In the mid- to late-1800s, there many American artists like Homer Dodge Martin who adapted the romantic element of Hudson River School painting, with the contemporary interest in misty atmosphere ...

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