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Remembering Ceramicist Harrison McIntosh

Harrison McIntosh, California modernist potter and sculptor, passed away this week at the age of 102.

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Modern Icon: Andy Warhol

It is a common conception that Andy Warhol’ Campbell Soup Cans paintings (stencil and silk-screen), 1962, were purely a cynical commentary on American commercialism.

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Modern Design: Bjarke Ingels + BIG

Bjarke Ingels, age 41, is the innovative Danish architect who heads the architectural firm Bjarke Ingals Group (BIG) founded in 2006.

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Modern Design: Inventing the Mouse

Jim Yurchenko recently retired after 35 years as a designer and innovator at IDEO in Palo Alto, California.

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Cubism: Modern Art Revolution

The avant-garde art movement known as Cubism which emerged in Paris between 1906 and 1911 was influenced by the Impressionists, café society, and the birth of the mechanical age – perhaps even by early motion pictures.

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Chuck Close: A Different Vision

Chuck Close is renown for his large portraits; mosaic compositions made up of hundreds of squares, each a small painting on its own.

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Modern Artist: Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, 59, was raised in Pennsylvania, and has lived and worked in New York City since the late 1970s.

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Immersive Art: Vivid Sydney

Last May at least one million people visited Sydney, Australia, to experience interactive light art installations, revel to new music, and participate in discussions and workshops about innovation.