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The Watts Towers, called “Nuestro Pueblo” by the artist, is a single wedge-shaped site containing 17 integrated sculptural metal and concrete towers ranging up to 99.5 feet high (30 m), various architectural and sculptural features, and mosaic panels and pavement. #artoftheday
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) left an enduring mark on the history of photography in his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Portrait of Chadwick
Boseman
Aira Ocrespo (@airaocrespo) •
2020
Hip Hop Education Center
Aira Ocrespo is a multi disciplinary artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil #artoftheday
February 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM
February 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
A sort of shutdown. #pictureoftheweek
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Peace and Freedom Shepard Fairey • 2013-11
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
Malaga
cacmálaga
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga
Mural painting by artist Shepard Fairey ( Obey ) in the MAUS program. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 15, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Carte-de-visite
Emancipation Watch
Meeting
Heard & Moseley, photographer •
1862-12-31
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and
Culture

Summary: African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation. #artoftheday
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Harold Weston decided to be a painter when he was eleven, but rejected art school and embarked on several years of travel because he felt it was more important “to find out what you wanted to say than how to say it.”#FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Lilies Of The Field US One
Sheet Movie Poster
United Artists • 1963/1963
Museum Of UnCut Funk
Original Theatrical Poster For Lilies of the Field #artoftheday
February 14, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Oh honey
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Oh honey
February 14, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Painter. A practitioner of American scene painting, Wood painted views of the Midwest in a realistic style mixed with satire. His most famous work, American Gothic, is an American icon. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Henry Box Brown
Published by A. Donnelly •
1850-01-01
National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center

Political comic of Henry Box Brown, who escaped the South by shipping himself in a box. Courtesy of Library of Congress. #artoftheday
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was an abstract artist whose exceptional career spanned more than four decades.

City Landscape
Joan Mitchell American,
1925-1992 • 1955
The Art Institute of Chicago #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Herbert (Herb) Kruckman (1904-98) was a New York-born cartoonist, illustrator, artist and author. Kruckman’s early comics include Gimpel Beinish for Warheit (1925) and Happy Hunch (1926) for the New York Evening Graphic, a strip about a rich young boxer named Clarence. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The Suppressed Book of Slavery
• 1857-01-01
National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center

Print of enslaved persons escaping from owners looking for freedom. Courtesy of Library of Congress. #artoftheday
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Best known for his photographs of Boston after the devasting fire of 1872, Black launched his solo career in 1860 with the production of a series of aerial photographs taken from Samuel King's hot-air balloon the Queen of the Air. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
William Still Watercolor
Painting
Jerry Pinkney, creator. National Underground Railroad Freedom
Center • 2022-07-12
National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center

Part of watercolor and graphite portrait of William Still and Thomas Garrett by Jerry Pinkney. Framed. #artoftheday
February 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

Gerhard Richter

Stadtbild SA (219/1)
Gerhard Richter • 1969
MAXXI National Museum of XXI
Century Arts #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Country Doctor (Night
Call)
Horace Pippin • 1935
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
#artoftheday
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hello Italy and The World #pictureoftheweek
February 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
So this is why there were no Winter Olympics in Ancient Greece. #sundayfunnies
February 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
“Blacula is part of a large body of working looking at the black image in popular culture. I thought Blacula was interesting because he seems to epitomize the culture’s fear of black men.” (laundromatproject.org)

Blacula
Rudy Shepherd • 2009
The Studio Museum in Harlem #artoftheday
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 AM
During Maybeck's long career he designed over 150 buildings in California, the majority of them being houses in Berkeley, but with several in San Francisco. #FebruaryBirthdayArtistParty
February 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM