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Mickey Mouse (comic strip)
Mickey Mouse comic strip, King Features Syndicate newspaper strip debuting January 13, 1930; defined by Floyd Gottfredson's 45-year run of adventure continuities, the Phantom Blot and Eega Beeva, and the 1950s return to gag-a-day.
Micronauts (comics)
Micronauts is Marvel Comics' 1979–1984 series (59 issues) by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden, based on Mego's Takara Microman toy line, set in the Microverse against Baron Karza, with later runs at Image, Devil's Due, IDW, and Marvel reprints from 2023.
Mictlantecuhtli
Mictlantecuhtli was the Aztec god of death and lord of Mictlan, the underworld, depicted in art as a skeleton with a toothy skull and clawed hands.
Mid-century modern
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a design movement in interiors, products, graphics, and architecture that flourished in the United States and Europe from about 1945 to 1969.
Midge (Barbie)
Midge (Midge Hadley) is Mattel's 1963 best-friend doll for Barbie, same body so they share clothes, with freckles and less makeup. Known for boyfriend Allan, the 2002 pregnant Happy Family Midge pulled by Walmart, and Emerald Fennell's 2023 film role.
Migrant Mother
Migrant Mother is a 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange showing Florence Owens Thompson, a 32-year-old mother of seven, at a pea-pickers' camp in Nipomo, California.
Miguel Covarrubias
Miguel Covarrubias (1904–1957) was a Mexican painter and caricaturist who made his name in Jazz Age New York and wrote the classic Island of Bali.
Miguel Rio Branco
Miguel Rio Branco, born 1946 in Las Palmas, Spain, is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker known for saturated color images of urban life, including the Maciel series.
Mihály Munkácsy
Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1900), born Michael von Lieb, was a Hungarian realist painter based in Paris, celebrated for genre scenes and large biblical works like Golgotha.
Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami
The Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami is a monumental glazed-tile prayer niche made in Isfahan, Iran, dated 1354–55, and now one of the best-known works of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mihrab of the Great Mosque of Córdoba
The mihrab of the Great Mosque of Córdoba is an octagonal prayer niche built under Caliph al-Hakam II between 962 and 971, decorated with Byzantine mosaics.
Mika Pikazo (ミカ ピカゾ)
Mika Pikazo (ミカ ピカゾ), Japanese illustrator born in Tokyo in 1993, also known for Kaguya Luna and Fire Emblem Engage character designs; Brazil-educated, vivid color style, MikaPikaZo art book, 2026 Landscape of Emotion exhibition.
Mikaeri Amida of Eikan-dō
The Mikaeri Amida (見返り阿弥陀, "Amitābha looking back") is a wooden statue of Amida at Eikan-dō temple in Kyoto, whose head turns back over its shoulder in a pose found in almost no other Buddha image.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer who laid the foundations of professional Lithuanian art and music, fusing painting with musical forms like sonatas and fugues.
Mike Grell
Mike Grell (born 1947, Iron Mountain, Michigan) is an American comic book writer-artist, creator of The Warlord, Starslayer, Jon Sable Freelance, and the acclaimed 1987 Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters.
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (Michael Mignola) is an American comic book artist and writer, creator of Hellboy (1993, Dark Horse), known for a shadow-heavy, mass-driven style influenced by Jack Kirby, plus Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and film design work.
Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael Subotzky is a South African artist, born in Cape Town in 1981, known for photography on incarceration and post-apartheid society, including Ponte City, which won the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov (Михаил Ларионов, 1881–1964) was a Russian painter and leader of the Russian avant-garde who created Rayonism, an early abstract style, and designed Ballets Russes stage sets in France.
Mikhail Matyushin
Mikhail Matyushin (Михаил Матюшин, 1861–1934) was a Russian painter, violinist, and composer of the avant-garde, best known for the 1913 opera Victory over the Sun.
Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel was a Russian painter, graphic artist, ceramicist, and stage designer born in Omsk in 1856, a leading Symbolist known for his Demon series.
Mikoláš Aleš
Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913) was a leading Czech painter, illustrator, and decorator who drew on Czech and Slavic history and folk life, winning the 1879 National Theatre competition.
Milan Fashion Week
Milan Fashion Week (Settimana della moda di Milano) is a semiannual fashion event in Milan, Italy, one of the four major fashion weeks, held since 1958.
Mildenhall Treasure
The Mildenhall Treasure is a hoard of 34 pieces of late Roman silver tableware found in Suffolk, England, in 1942 and now held by the British Museum.
Milena Pavlović-Barili
Milena Pavlović-Barili (Милена Павловић Барили, 1909–1945) was a Serbian painter, illustrator, and poet who worked in Belgrade, Paris, and New York, known for dreamlike paintings blending reality and imagination.
Mileševa Monastery frescoes
The Mileševa Monastery frescoes are 13th-century wall paintings of a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Prijepolje, painted for King Stefan Vladislav and famous for the White Angel.
Millennial grey
Millennial grey, the gray-heavy interior design style of the 2010s using cool gray walls, flooring, and furniture, which arose as a reaction against warm Tuscan beige and became a Gen Z TikTok criticism before declining for sage green and warm neutrals.
Millôr Fernandes
Millôr Fernandes, born Milton Viola Fernandes (1923–2012), was a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist, and playwright who worked in the Rio de Janeiro press for more than 70 years.
Milo Moiré
Milo Moiré (born 1983) is a Swiss performance artist of Spanish and Slovak descent based in Düsseldorf, known for nude public works PlopEgg #1 (Art Cologne 2014), The Script System, and Mirror Box (2016), for which she was arrested in London.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery (1885–1965) was an American painter of figural, genre, and landscape subjects in simplified forms and flat color, influencing Rothko and Color Field painters.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (1929–2020), American graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios and New York magazine, creator of the I ♥ NY logo and the 1966 Bob Dylan poster, and first graphic designer to receive the National Medal of Arts (2009).