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Remembering Native American Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Indian Madonna Enthroned, 1974 (All Photos By Gail)

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a pioneering Native American artist and activist, passed away on January 24, 2025, after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. She had just celebrated her 85th birthday.

An enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Smith was renowned for her dynamic artworks that intricately mapped the Native American experience, blending abstraction, collage, and mixed media to address themes of identity, oppression, and environmental issues.

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McFlag, 1996
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Shrine (White) By Agosto Machado

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Downtown New York has hosted generations of underground cultural communities, providing a vibrant home for drag queens, theater performers, filmmakers, and outcasts. Performance artist and queer liberation activist Agosto Machado has been a long-standing figure in these scenes. Over five decades, he has amassed a large collection of art and ephemera from the city’s counterculture, which he assembles into shrines, such as the one seen above. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Shrine (White) By Agosto Machado →

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Pink Thing The Day: Naughty Pink Gnome

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This Hot Pink Gnome defiantly flipping the bird is officially known as a Sponti Activist Gnome Sculpture by German conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl. It sells for $120 in the gift shop at the newish Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California. Because, Eff You.

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Pink Thing of The Day: Save The Animals Mural By Praxis

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Praxis is a Colombian-born street artist who spray-paints amazingly realistic stencil portraits of animals all around the streets of NYC. This Pink Lion — captured-mid-roar — is part of a series of pink animals that adorn the facade of the Spicy Moon Bar located on Bowery just below Houston. Find out more about Praxis, and see more his beautiful artworks, by following him on Instagram at This Link!

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Revolutionary (Angela Davis)

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Wadsworth Jarrell’s Revolutionary (Angela Davis) (1971) is one of the most recognized paintings associated with the Black Arts Movement, a cultural manifestation of the Black Power Movement. Artists of this movement sought to create uplifting images that called upon Black people to harness their collective power.

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