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This dog travelled the world, won the hearts or royalty, and was supported by an enormous community. He also had a fancy jacket.

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November 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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If Vincent van Gogh died broke and obscure, how did he become a household name worldwide? The answer is Johanna Bonger, and this is her story.

#JohannaBonger #VincentvanGogh #TheovanGogh #artsky #historysky #women #art #letters #pr
The Amazing True Story of Johanna Bonger, The Woman Behind Vincent van Gogh's Posthumous Success
How did Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) become a household name and one of the most beloved figures in the history of art? After all, the renowned artist died young and, by all accounts, fairly unsucce...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Sometimes, it’s easy to forget good advice. Here’s a friendly reminder!

#art #artsky #creativity #health #wellness #artishealth #science
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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If you want to smile, read this!

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A Few Words About Man's Best Friend: Dorothy Parker, Emily Pauline Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling on dogs
A Few Words About Man's Best Friend: Dorothy Parker, Emily Pauline Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling on dogs
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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In case anyone needs any recipe suggestions this Thanksgiving!

#dali #warhol #cookbooks #recipes #foodstyling #illustration #artsky #popsky #Thanksgiving #artists
Illustrated Cookbooks: Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol
Illustrated Cookbooks: Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol
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November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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When food meets art.

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MENU A’LA CARTE: Culinary arts and the avant-garde
Given their ability to provoke, the culinary arts and the avant-garde have often come together to dramatic and inspired effect.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Publika, the holidays are an amazing opportunity to do both, find unique gifts made by artists and support an indie publication that covers the pragmatic side of art.

Every unboxing is Magic with The ARTpublika Shop! Stop by today!

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Every Unboxing is Magic with The ARTpublika Shop!

Find unique gifts for the holidays and beyond! 👉 tinyurl.com/yxhdamcs

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Sora generated image of Santa, Elf and Rudolph unboxing a package from The ARTpublika Shop | Prompt & edits by Liz Publika
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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What started off as a silly dream gave way to an iconic character loved all over the world!

#clifford #artofdogs #publishing #illustration #children’sbooks #booksky #kids #reading #books
Every Kid Wants a Dog as Big as a Horse and so Did Norman Bridwell: The charming true story of Clifford the Big Red Dog
If you were born around or after the mid-1960s, you likely recall seeing the shelves in your school library stocked with books featuring a big red dog by the name of Clifford. There’s a good chance yo...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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“Woman with Parrot” by Thota Vaikuntam (Indian) - Acrylic on canvas / c. 2001 - Sarmaya Arts Foundation (Mumbai, India) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #ThotaVaikuntam #IndianArt #Telangana #SouthAsianArt #ModernIndianArt #ContemporaryArt #FigurativeArt #Parrot #BirdArt #Sarmaya #WomenWithAnimals
This acrylic painting shows a Telangana (in south-central India) woman in profile, her dark, luminous skin framed by a richly patterned deep blue sari and heavy ornaments that curve in strong, graphic lines around her face and shoulders. A bright green parrot perches just behind her head, its beak angled toward her cheek as if mid-conversation, echoing the tilt of her eyes and the gentle tension in her lips. Flat, saturated reds, yellows, blues, and greens replace modelling with bold contour, while delicate dots and borders decorate her sari and jewelry. Against a plain, pale backdrop, every curve of her bangles, nose ring, and hairline is sharply defined, centering a powerful village woman whose presence fills the frame. Drawing on the sensuous “alasa kanyas” (aka lazy, relaxed, or indolent maidens”) motifs of medieval temple sculpture and on memories of the women of rural Telangana, Indian artist Thota Vaikuntam turns a familiar image of a woman with her parrot into a celebration of caste-marked, regionally specific beauty and interior life. The parrot, long a South Asian symbol of desire, gossip, devotion, and companionship, becomes here a trusted witness to the sitter’s private world. Born in Boorugupalli in 1942 and trained in Hyderabad and at MS University Baroda under K.G. Subramanyan, Vaikuntam fused folk, cinematic poster art, and temple iconography into his now-iconic language of flattened planes and monumental village figures. In “Woman with Parrot,” he honors the women who shaped him like toddy-shop workers, market sellers, mothers, and wives by casting them not as decorative muses but as protagonists whose gaze, gesture, and vivid presence define contemporary Indian art.
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The art world is changing. Are you ready? #artsky #creatives #AI
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and her Greyhound Laertes) by Berthe Morisot (French) – Oil on canvas / 1893 – Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #BertheMorisot #Morisot #Impressionism #MuséeMarmottanMonet #DogsInArt #WomenArtists #WomensArt #arte
Julie, about 14, sits diagonally on a rose-toned sofa in an elegant Parisian salon, her long auburn hair loose over the dark sheen of a fitted black silk dress with full sleeves and narrow waist. Her pale hands gather in her lap as she leans slightly forward, gaze unfocused and inward. At her feet stands Laërte, a slim greyhound with a fine collar, muzzle lifted toward her for a touch. To the left, a pale blue Louis XVI chair and softly sketched Japanese prints and paintings dissolve into Morisot’s fluid strokes, the cream walls and quick lilac and green notes making the figures luminous against an airy, unfinished backdrop. Painted in 1893, months after the death of Julie’s father, Eugène Manet, this double portrait of girl and dog layers affection and grief. Julie’s black dress marks mourning, yet its severity is softened by Berthe Morisot’s vibrating color and light; she is cradled by a cultivated interior filled with art and Japan-inspired prints, visual shorthand for the family’s cosmopolitan circle. Laërte was a gift from Stéphane Mallarmé, who would become Julie’s guardian after Morisot’s death and embodies vigilance and solace, anchoring her in loyalty as she hovers between childhood and adulthood. Empty spaces like the unused chair and blurred wall read as absences, making the work a quiet elegy for a family already half-lost. This canvas belongs to Morisot’s final, daring period, when illness, personal loss, and absolute commitment to her art sharpened her touch into bolder contrasts and sweeping, seemingly unfinished marks. A founding Impressionist and the only woman to exhibit in most of the group’s shows, Morisot spent her career centering women and children with radical intimacy. Here she paints her only daughter with a new psychological depth: Julie as heir to an Impressionist dynasty and circle that includes Monet and Mallarmé. The painting stands as a testament to the fragile, enduring bond between mother, daughter, and their artistic world.
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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New Blog* | “Her work lives at the intersection of psychological autopsy and radical empathy — a combination that makes her portraits feel simultaneously clinical and intimate; she painted revelation — what her sitters tried, often unconsciously, to conceal.”

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Alice Neel Painted What We Hide
As a portrait painter, Alice Neel was not interested in flattery. She preferred dissection.Her work lives at the intersection of psychological autopsy and radical empathy — a combination that makes he...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We celebrated Balto into a commodity, then punished him for the fame we forced on him.

🎯 The quest for justice often leads us to commit new injustices. Balto's story shows us how.

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The true story of Balto
It’s wrong to say that Seppala did not hold Kaasen’s journey and Balto’s accomplishments in high esteem, but the disproportionate attention paid to them soon started to build resentment on Seppala’s b...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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She was unique, for sure.

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When Women of The Night Hosted The Love Goddess Judy Tenuta
Judy Lynn Tenuta — also known as The Love Goddess, The Petite Flower, and Aphrodite of the Accordion, etc. — is the first woman in history to win in the ​​Best Female Stand-Up Comic category at The A...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Some last minute costume inspo.

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October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Wake the dead!

Tonight, people across the world will try to connect with Harry Houdini, who passed away on this day, 99 years ago.

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I Paint Dead People: The art of séances and mediumship
“Rosabelle, believe.” These were the words, shrouded inside a secret code, spoken by Harry Houdini (1874 — 1926) from beyond the grave to hi
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October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Unique holiday gifts are easy to find at The ARTpublika Shop!

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October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The sciences are fun.

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October 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The King of Halloween on one of the most iconic horror franchises in the game.

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The Legend of Bruce Campbell and 40 years of Evil Dead
“I don’t think about death,” calmly states Bruce Campbell. That’s ironic, coming from him. Over the last 40 years Campbell’s become a legend
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October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The movement was supposed to be about modesty, but they messed it up.

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Vanitas, Vanity of Vanities: This is why we can't have nice things
The art form hails from the chilly shores of the once United Provinces of the Netherlands, which was a world-famous Calvinsm hotspot during
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October 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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How it started. In one month, we find out how it’s going.

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October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Wassily #Kandinsky - On the #Dances of #Palucca, 1926. Discover more design history by subscribing to my newsletter designreviewed.com/newsletter/
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Spotlighting some work by ARTpublika’s editor-in-chief, Liz Publika.

#booksky #taichi #nonfiction #martialartist #LouReed #interview #musician #spotlight
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#LouReed died on this day some twelve years ago. Thirteen years ago, he invited me to tag along to dinner with him, #MasterRen (Tai Chi master) and #StephanBerwick (martial artist) after the screening of Final Weapon. Our #interview is now published in The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi (2023)
Liz Publika with Lou Reed and Stephan Berwick in NYC, 2012.
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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“‘We literally fell in love standing at the dissection table,’ recalls Dr. Angelina Whalley, the Managing Director of The Institute for Plastination and the Creative Director of the internationally acclaimed Body Worlds exhibitions.”

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Interview with the Creative Director of Body Worlds
Full human body plastination was really difficult and no one wanted that. But, he did it. And doing these animal exhibits, it’s just absolut
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October 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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From an artistic perspective, these are pretty great.

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Rare Black & White Prohibition Posters 1874 – 1922: A photo essay
Rare Black & White Prohibition Posters 1874 – 1922: A photo essay | Images are taken from the The Library of Congress, which is the larg
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October 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM