Keith Harding
Keith Allen Haring (1958–1990) was an American artist and social activist who’s street art in NYC expressed the concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. His visual language has become one of the most widely recognized of the 20th century. Raised in...
Cy Twombly
Edwan Parker “Cy” Twombly, Jr.(1928–2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer who’s contemporaries are Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. His works are generally large-scale graffiti-like paintings on flat backgrounds that are...
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), most commonly known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer songwriter. Her career spanned thirty years and had a great influence on jazz music and pop singing. Not formally trained, she pioneered a new way of...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, was an English poet, playwright, and actor. During his lifetime, he is credited with writing 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His works are translated...
