Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter and activist Frida Kahlo de Rivera  was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico. The National Museum of Women in the Arts is celebrating with a virtual Happy Hour today, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Eastern. Reserve your spot and mix up a cocktail. ¡Salud!

Related:

Frida Kahlo at MoMA

Frida Kahlo: The Complete Works, Frida-Kahlo-Foundation.org

“Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More.” Rebecca Kleinman, New York Times

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Happy Birthday Smokey Bear

“Smokey Bear, the U.S. Forest Service’s symbol of fire prevention, turns 75 on Friday. Smokey is the longest-running public service ad campaign, first appearing on a poster on Aug. 9, 1944.”

— “Careful With Those Birthday Candles, Smokey: Beloved Bear Turns 75,” Brian Naylor, NPR News

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Happy Birthday, Wolfgang!

It’s the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We baked him a little kuchen, but the Internet fire marshals wouldn’t let us put 261 candles on it.

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Happy Birthday Smokey Bear

Smokey Bear is 70 years old today. Careful with his cake — that’s a lot of candles.

The old geezer has kept up, though, so you can send him best wishes through Facebook,  Instagram, or Twitter.

More:

“Smokey Bear to celebrate 70th birthday, with no plans on retiring,” Emily Wickwire NBC Today

 “Smokey Bear, Iconic Symbol of Wildfire Prevention, Still Going Strong at 70,” Kathryn Sosbe, USDA blog

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Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck

Happy Birthday, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. Born February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California.

Best Wishes from the Joad Family.

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Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

— Frederick Douglass (ca. 1818 — 1895), Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1886)

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Birthday

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Esq. celebrated her 50th birthday on Friday, January 17th by taking her new AARP card for a test drive (above) on Twitter.

Mrs. Obama shares her January 17th birth date with fellow Capricorn celebrities Aga Khan (1933), Al Capone (1899), Andy Kaufman (1949), Anton Chekhov (1860), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Betty White (1922), David Lloyd George (1863), Eartha Kitt (1927), Frederick the Wise of Saxony (1463), James Earl Jones (1931), Jim Carrey (1962),  Kid Rock (1971),  Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Mack Sennett (1880), Maury Povich (1939), Muhammad Ali (1942), Nevil Shute (1899), Newton Minow (1926),   Nicholas Katzenbach (1922),  Noah Beery (1884), Philip the Bold of Burgundy (1342 ), Pope Pius V (1504), Ronald Firbank (1886), Shabba Ranks (1966), Shari Lewis (1934),  Steve Harvey (1957),  Troy Donahue (1937), Vidal Sassoon (1928), and  Zooey Deschanel (1980).

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Happy Birthday Edvard Munch

December 12th is the birthday of Edvard Munch. The Norwegian artist is 150. Norway’s embassy in DC decorated a Christmas tree in his honor, and Oslo’s Munch Museum mounted a massive exhibit of its namesakes’s art work.

Related:

Munch 150 Anniversary Magazine (free download)

Edvard Munch: 1863-1944, Jon-Ove Steihaug, Mai Britt Guleng and Birgitte Sauge, eds., Rizzoli 2013

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Happy Birthday, Picasso

Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born on October 25, 1881. Actually, he was baptized “Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso” but that wouldn’t fit neatly in the corner of a canvas.

“Happy Birthday, Pablo Picasso!” Huffington Post

“Pablo Picasso Birthday Celebration,” Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

“Happy Birthday, Picasso: His Rare 1934 Etchings for a Sexually Charged Ancient Greek Comedy,” Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“Celebrating Picasso, Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

“Sotheby’s brings Picasso, Miro to Moscow for ‘priciest ever’ show,” AFP via Hindustan Times

On-Line Picasso Project

Picasso official website

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Party Like It’s 1984

Last week Dutch artists Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle celebrated the 110th birthday of writer George Orwell (Eric Blair, 1903-1950) by decorating surveillance cameras in the city of Utrecht with party hats to remind us how “the surveillance state described by Orwell is getting closer and closer to reality.”

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“Dutch Artists Celebrate George Orwell’s Birthday By Putting Party Hats On Surveillance Cameras,” Ellie Hall, Buzzfeed

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