In 1962 an accountant named Bhupen Khakhar decided to make a career change at the ripe age of 28. He enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barota and quickly became an emerging voice in Indian art. However, his work didn't truly reach maturity until the death of his mother and an eye-opening trip t

Bright, Homoerotic, Pioneering, Queer art, Quirky, Urban

Zittel specializes in creating compartmentalized living units, fully functional microcosms that could actually well serve the space constraints on an overpopulated planet. These pieces are somehow simultaneously absurd, satiric, and functional: in a sense Zittel is more preoccupied with design than w

Clever, Domestic, Functional, Quirky, Round

His photographs might capture an evanescent instant, but together -- in groups or pairs, assemblages or arrangements -- they stretch beyond the instantaneous. Communicating among themselves, Tillmans' images develop narratives, forming a world, a habitat, a social milieu out of their variegated reson

Bright, Elegant, Event, Quirky, Subculture, Technology

On June 9, 1978, an obituary appeared with the headline "On the death of Hannah Hoch, the bob-haired muse of the Men's Club." For much of her life, Hoch had been characterized as the "It Girl" of the macho Berlin art circle dominated by George Grosz, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Raoul Ha

Dada, Eclectic, Intense, Playful, Quirky