Jullien's 'Paper People' check their phones, visit cafes, and work on a production line in a lighthearted and sympathetic vision of everyday life.
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The Lyon-based artist defies natural order to illustrate the often farcical quirks of human behavior.
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The cat's pajamas take on new meaning in Helga Stentzel’s fashionable menagerie.
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As Chicago-based artist Dabin Ahn looks forward, he's feeling hopeful for the future.
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From Impressionist virtuosos to modernist greats, Alexandra Loske traces the stories behind many of art history's most significant works.
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"My work touches very contrasting emotions: the joy of color and natural beauty but also the sadness and despair of where we are headed," Kilgast says.
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Moffat Takadiwa is part of a dynamic movement of African artists who work exclusively with recycled or repurposed materials.
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Rodrigo Oñate, a.k.a. Roco, marries the visual languages of graffiti, comics, and pop culture in his energetic paintings.
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"The Abrahamic faiths conceive of God as an omniscient creator and generally abjure gambling as a result; one of the first laws passed by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards, dice, or gaming tables." — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
One who is omniscient literally knows all. The word omniscient traces back to two Latin roots: omni-, meaning "all" or "universally," and the noun scientia, meaning "knowledge." You will recognize omni- as the prefix that tells all in such words as omnivorous ("eating all," or in actual use, "eating both plants and animals") and omnipotent ("all-powerful"). Scientia comes from the Latin verb scīre, meaning "to know," which likewise has a number of other knowledge-related descendants in English, including conscience, science, and prescience (meaning "foreknowledge").