On This Day

June 27, On This Day This painter “frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as, especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work, the banality of evil”. Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein in June 27, 1913, was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. He is today regarded one of […]

June 21, On This Day Credited with the discovery of legendary Gond tribal artist from Madhya Pradesh, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jagdish Swaminathan — commonly known as J Swaminathan — was a renowned Indian artist, painter, poet and writer in his own right, and also a member of the Communist Party of India. Swaminathan was born

Iri Maruki was born on this day, June 20, in 1901 in Hiroshima Province in Japan. He studied traditional nihonga painting, monochrome in ink, and famously collaborated with his artist wife, Toshi Maruki, throughout his life. When Hiroshima was struck by an atomic bomb, Iri’s family was present there. Iri reached the site three days

June 18, On This Day Sunayani Devi Amid a lineage of prolific littérateurs and artists, the Tagore family, was yet another eminent painter and woman. Sunayani Devi was the younger sister of painters Abanindranath, Gaganendranath and Samarendranath Tagore, and the niece of Rabindranath Tagore. She was born to Saudamini Devi and Gunendranath Tagore on

June 13, On This Day Remember last year, when the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was wrapped up in gigantic swathes of silver and blue, giving way to a flamboyant project that no one had quite envisioned could happen? That was the vision of artist pair Christo and Jeanne-Claude — or Christo Vladimirov