International Tiger Day
This beautiful piece of Cizhou ware dates from a period when tigers were not an endangered species. In 2010, the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit of 13 tiger-range countries in Russia established Interna ...
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National Great Outdoors Month: Art by Cheng Tsung Feng (born 1987 Taiwan)
National Great Outdoors Month began as National Great Outdoors Week in 1998 in the US. In 2019 the US Senate created National Great Outdoors Month for June, to encourage people to enjoy the recreation ...
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Artist Birthday: Watanabe Kunio (born 1967 Japan)
Long before ceramic arts were recognized as fine art in the West, the art form was revered as a priceless national treasure in Japan. Contemporary artists like Kunio Watanabe continue to build on the ...
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Artist Birthday: Tsujimura Shirō (born 1947 Japan)
Like many of the Japanese artists born after World War II (1939-1945), the art of Shirō Tsujimura is a reverent combination of honoring ages-old Japanese artistic traditions, and adding contemporary a ...
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National Beverage Day
National Beverage Day began around 1921 or 1922, originally known as National Carbonated Beverage Day. The day encourages people to grab their favorite drink and relax with friends. But, beverages are ...
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National Picnic Day: Art by Mori Keiko (born 1939 Japan)
Keiko Mori is a National Living Cultural Treasure in Japan. Her ceramics celebrate the centuries old traditions in ceramic arts. Although ceramic picnic baskets do not strictly speaking exist in the W ...
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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor
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: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)
Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
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Happy and Healthy New Year!
I cannot image a better way than saying “goodbye” to 2025 than with the uplifting, positive sentiments reserved for the pine tree in Japanese and Chinese cultures. There are very few e ...
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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue
Kenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
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