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Celebrating the work of cyborg artist and activist Neil Harbisson on his birthday

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Neil Harbisson, a Spanish-born British-Irish-American cyborg artist and activist for transspecies rights celebrates his birthday today on July 27. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull. Since 2004, international media has described him as the world\’s first legally recognized cyborg and as the […]

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Tyeb Mehta: A modernist Indian master whose powerful paintings minted their worth

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July 26, On This Day A much-revered painter from the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, Tyeb Mehta was born on July 26, 1925, and had a prolific career over at least six decades. Also known as a sculptor and film maker, Mehta was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which comprised other

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Remembering Jane Frank, the American multidisciplinary artist, on her birthday

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Jane Schenthal Frank, was an American multidisciplinary mixed media artist who enthralled the viewers with her spatial paintings and minimalist sculptures. She was also an illustrator and a textile artist and was born on this day, July 25, 1918. She studied with artists, Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg. An abstract expressionist who drew her inspirate

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Sculpting a precarious balance into a lasting legacy: Alexander Calder was born today

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July 22, On This Day A groundbreaking American sculptor known for his innovative ‘mobiles’ (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents), his static ‘stabiles’, and his monumental public sculptures, Alexander Calder was born on July 22, 1898 in Pennsylvania, USA. (Interestingly, his birthdate is a bit of a source of confusion, as his mother

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Celebrating Garry Trudeau’s birthday: The first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer

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Garretson Beekman Trudeau, popularly known as Garry Trudeau, was born on this day, July 21, 1948. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Doonesbury chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States

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Bernd Fasching: The Austrian painter who ‘involves’ viewers in his art practice

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Bernd Fasching, born 18 July 1955 in Vienna, Austria, is an Austrian painter and sculptor best known for his art practice that seeks to actively involve the viewer in the shaping of his projects. While he lives and works in Vienna, he has taken his experimental exhibitions across the globe. In particular, the series called

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Anjolie Ela Menon, the Indian contemporary artist who has helmed artistic reinvention for decades

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July 17, On This Day Anjolie Ela Menon | Via Scroll There is not much that has not already been said in the media realm about Anjolie Ela Menon, one of India’s leading and award-winning contemporary artists, alongside being a most distinguished icon for successful women in the field of arts. Born on July 17,

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