Nov 17 2025
Walter Peregoy did not seem particularly interested in making animation look safe. His backgrounds could be rough, angular, brilliantly colored, and deliberately incomplete. A building did not need every brick carefully rendered. A tree could become a collision of shapes and lines. Colors did not have to remain neatly contained within outlines, and the painted …
Nov 16 2025
Few people have changed popular entertainment as profoundly as Shigeru Miyamoto. The Japanese designer helped create characters and worlds that have become recognizable far beyond video games: Mario leaping across the Mushroom Kingdom, Link exploring Hyrule, Donkey Kong throwing barrels, Pikmin carrying objects many times their own size, and families gathering around a television to …
Nov 15 2025
Robbert Flick does something unusual with landscape photography: he refuses to pretend that we experience a place in a single frozen moment. We walk through it. We turn our heads. We drive past it. Buildings disappear behind other buildings, roads carry us toward something and then away again, and landscapes change according to where we …
Nov 14 2025
Alan Horton Crane could transform an ordinary harbor, snowy road, village street, fishing boat, crowded market, or stand of bamboo into an image filled with atmosphere. His lithographs rarely depend upon dramatic events. Instead, their power comes from looking carefully at places where people live and work and then translating those observations into remarkably controlled …
Nov 11 2025
For millions of radio listeners who had never crossed the Pacific, Webley Edwards made Hawaiʻi audible. His weekly broadcasts carried steel guitars, ukuleles, vocal harmonies, hula songs, and the sound of the surf from Waikīkī into homes thousands of miles away. At the height of its popularity, Hawaii Calls reached audiences around the world and …
Nov 10 2025
Louis le Brocquy spent more than seventy years trying to paint something that could not easily be seen. Faces, bodies, families, travellers, writers, poets, and mythological figures appear throughout his work, yet straightforward portraiture was rarely enough for him. He wanted to reach beyond surface resemblance toward something more elusive: the presence of another person, …
Nov 09 2025
Winston Vargas did not set out to create a sixty-year photographic history of one of New York City’s most important immigrant neighborhoods. He began by photographing what was around him: friends, children, storefronts, barbershops, school activities, families, people talking on sidewalks, and the ordinary streets of Washington Heights. Time transformed those photographs into something larger. …
Nov 01 2025
Born on November 1, Hello Kitty has one of the most unusual birthdays in pop culture because the character herself has remained essentially timeless. She began with a white face, two black eyes, a yellow nose, whiskers, and a red bow, yet that remarkably simple design grew into one of the most recognizable visual identities …
Oct 30 2025
Born on October 30, 1839, in Paris, Alfred Sisley became one of the central painters of Impressionism while remaining in some ways the quietest member of the movement’s famous inner circle. He painted beside Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, participated in the first Impressionist exhibition, worked constantly outdoors, and spent decades studying the effects of …
Oct 27 2025
Born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, Roy Lichtenstein became one of the defining artists of Pop Art by transforming images associated with comic books, advertising, inexpensive printing, and mass culture into enormous paintings that entered some of the world’s most prestigious museums. Fighter planes explode across canvases. Tearful women stare from romance-comic …
