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Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle (born 1953, Paris) is a French conceptual artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker known for rule-bound private games like The Sleepers, Suite Venitienne, The Hotel, and The Blind, and for representing France at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Sophie Elgort
Sophie Elgort, New York photographer, director, and TV host, daughter of Arthur Elgort and sister of Ansel Elgort; founder of ClickHouse and host/executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS/ALL ARTS series Portrait Mode.
Sophie Tea
Sophie Tea (born 1993) is a British contemporary painter who sells art directly via social media, known for her Nudie female-form series, Carnaby Street and Sydney galleries, Charity Shop Friday, and the 2026 Fulham Pier installation.
Sōsaku-hanga
Sōsaku-hanga (creative prints) is a Japanese print movement, begun with Kanae Yamamoto in 1904, in which one artist designs, carves, and prints each work, flourishing after World War II.
Sots Art
Sots Art (соц-арт) is an unofficial Soviet art movement of the 1970s and 1980s treating Socialist Realism ironically, named in 1972 by Komar and Melamid.
South African resistance poster art
South African resistance poster art is the anti-apartheid political graphics, centered on silkscreen printing, produced between 1975 and 2000 by workshops such as the Medu Art Ensemble.
South Wind, Clear Sky
South Wind, Clear Sky (Gaifū kaisei), popularly called Red Fuji, is a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, made around 1830–33 for his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade (南蛮人来朝図, Nanbanjin raichō zu) is the title of a pair of six-panel folding screens at the Kobe City Museum, attributed to Kanō Naizen.
Sovereign's Orb
The Sovereign's Orb is a hollow golden globe surmounted by a cross, made in 1661 for Charles II's coronation and kept with the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross
The Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross is a gold coronation sceptre made in 1661 for Charles II, used at every coronation since and kept at the Tower of London.
Soviet architectural modernism
Soviet architectural modernism (Soviet modernism, 1955–1991): the modernist current in late Soviet architecture launched by the 4 November 1955 anti-excess decree, known for prefabricated mass housing, republic-level regional variants, and contested post-Soviet heritage.
Sowei
The Sowei, also called bundu or ndoli jowei, is a carved wooden helmet mask worn by senior women of the Sande Society in Sierra Leone.
Soyjak
Soyjak (Soyjack, Soyak): Wojak-derived MS Paint meme of the "soy boy" stereotype with glasses, beard, and open-mouthed "Soylent Grin," first posted on 4chan /int/ December 30, 2017 by The Swede; used as a strawman reaction image.
Sp5der
Sp5der (SP5DER, formerly Spider Worldwide) is an American streetwear brand founded in 2019 in Atlanta by rapper Young Thug, owned via King Spider LLC, known for spider-web graphics, rhinestone hoodies, limited drops, and its 2021 SP5DER trademark.
Sparkles emoji
Sparkles emoji (✨), U+2728, Dingbats block; Unicode 6.0 (2010), Docomo 1999 origin; three yellow four-point stars used for emphasis, sarcasm, newness, and AI features.
Speculations about Mona Lisa
Speculations about Mona Lisa cover the sitter's identity (Lisa Gherardini vs alternatives), claimed earlier versions like the Isleworth Mona Lisa, the Prado copy, hidden-painting claims, smile and gaze perception studies, and medical iconodiagnoses.
Speed Graphic
The Speed Graphic was a Graflex folding press camera produced from 1912 to 1973, the standard camera of American photojournalism from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Speedbird
Speedbird is a stylized bird emblem designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott in 1932 for Imperial Airways. It later became the corporate logo for BOAC and British Airways.
Spider-Boy
Spider-Boy is a Marvel Comics name shared by Bailey Briggs, Dan Slott's 2023 retconned child sidekick of Spider-Man with extra eyes and spider speech, and Peter Ross, the 1996 Amalgam Spider-Man/Superboy hybrid.
Spider-Man
Spider-Man, the Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) as Peter Parker, a Queens teenager with spider powers bound by Uncle Ben's great-responsibility maxim, later joined by Miles Morales and film stars Maguire, Garfield, and Holland.
Spider-Man: Life Story
Spider-Man: Life Story is a six-issue Marvel Comics miniseries from 2019, by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Mark Bagley, imagining Peter Parker aging in real time since his 1962 debut.
Spinario
Spinario, also called the Boy with Thorn, is a 1st-century-BC bronze statue of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, in Rome's Capitoline Museums.
Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson's 1970 counterclockwise basalt earthwork at Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah; 1,500 ft long, Dia-owned since 1999, National Register 2024.
Spirit way
A spirit way (神道, shendao) is the ceremonial approach road to a Chinese tomb, lined with rows of stone statues reproducing the deceased's honor guard.
Spirou (magazine)
Spirou (Le Journal de Spirou) is a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis at Marcinelle since 21 April 1938; creator Rob-Vel's bellboy Spirou, the Amis de Spirou club, and series like Lucky Luke, Gaston, and the Smurfs define it.
Splashed-ink landscape
Splashed-ink landscape (Chinese pomo, 潑墨; Japanese hatsuboku) is a painting made by spattering or pouring ink so its accidental shapes suggest mountains, clouds, and water, arising in Tang China.
Spoliarium
Spoliarium, 1884 oil on canvas by Juan Luna (4.22 × 7.675 m), gold medal at the 1884 Madrid Exposición Nacional; fallen gladiators allegory of colonial Philippines; largest Philippine painting, National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila.
Spoonbridge and Cherry
Spoonbridge and Cherry is a sculptural fountain by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, a giant spoon bearing a red cherry at the center of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Spoonmaker's Diamond
The Spoonmaker's Diamond (Kaşıkçı Elması) is an 86-carat pear-shaped diamond in the Topkapı Palace treasury in Istanbul, surrounded by 49 smaller diamonds, and among the largest on public display.
Spring Morning in the Han Palace
Spring Morning in the Han Palace (汉宫春晓图) is a long handscroll painting by Ming dynasty painter Qiu Ying, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.