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Best Friends Forever (sculpture)
Best Friends Forever: 12-foot faux-bronze 2025 sculpture by anonymous collective The Secret Handshake showing Trump and Epstein holding hands on the National Mall; permitted, removed within 24 hours, reinstalled October 2, 2025.
Betsy Braddock
Betsy Braddock (Elizabeth Braddock), Marvel Comics mutant telepath, twin sister of Brian Braddock; X-Man as Psylocke since 1986, Captain Britain since 2019; created by Claremont and Trimpe, 1976.
Betsy Wyeth
Betsy Wyeth (Betsy Merle James Wyeth, 1921–2020), American art manager, archivist, and designer; wife and career director of painter Andrew Wyeth; named his paintings, built the Maine island environments, and helped create the Brandywine Museum.
Better in Denim
Better in Denim is a Fall 2025 advertising campaign by Gap. Starring KATSEYE, the campaign drew over 600 million views and won a Clio Music Gold Award.
Bettina Rheims
Bettina Rheims is a French photographer, born in 1952, known for staged portraits of femininity and gender identity and for fashion work for Chanel and magazines like Elle.
Betye Saar
Betye Saar, born Betty Irene Brown, was an American artist known for assemblage works from found objects confronting racism, stereotypes, and slavery's legacy; her 1972 Liberation of Aunt Jemima became iconic.
Beyan-ı Menazil
Beyan-ı Menazil (Account of the Stages of the Campaign of the Two Iraqs) is a 16th-century Ottoman illustrated manuscript by Matrakçı Nasuh recording Süleyman's 1533-1535 campaign against the Safavids.
Bharhut rail pillar Yakshi
A Bharhut rail pillar Yakshi is a red sandstone railing pillar from the Bharhut stupa in Madhya Pradesh, carved in relief with a female nature deity around 150–100 BCE.
Bharti Kher
Bharti Kher is a British-Indian contemporary artist, born in London in 1969 and based in New Delhi since 1993, known for sculptures and installations using bindis and found objects.
Bhavitha Mandava
Bhavitha Mandava is an Indian model from Hyderabad, first Indian model to open a Chanel show (Métiers d'Art, December 2025) and first Indian Chanel House Ambassador, scouted on a Brooklyn subway in 2024 before her Bottega Veneta debut.
Bhitargaon Temple
The Bhitargaon Temple is a 5th-century Gupta Hindu temple of brick and terracotta in Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, and the oldest surviving terracotta temple with a roof.
Bhupen Khakhar
Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an Indian painter and Gujarati writer based in Baroda, often called India's first pop artist and a pioneering openly gay artist.
Bi (jade)
Bi (璧) is a flat, circular Chinese jade disk with a small central hole, one of the earliest Chinese jade forms, buried with high-status individuals and later symbolizing Heaven.
Bianca Censori
Bianca Censori (born 1995) is an Australian architect, University of Melbourne-trained, who led architecture at Yeezy from 2020, reportedly married Ye in late 2022, and debuted the performance work BIO POP in Seoul in 2025.
Bichitr
Bichitr was an Indian Mughal court painter active from about 1610 to 1660 who served the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and painted allegorical miniatures.
Biedermeier
Biedermeier, also called Vormärz, is the Central European cultural era and style between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the 1848 revolutions, known for bourgeois domesticity, simple elegant furniture, and genre painting by Waldmüller and Spitzweg.
Biennale
Biennale (Italian; English: biennial): a large recurring exhibition of contemporary art held every two years, begun with the Venice Biennale in 1895. Covers national pavilions, documenta, Manifesta, and the global spread to over 300 biennials.
Bifa Ji
Bifa Ji (笔法记) is a treatise on ink landscape painting attributed to the Five Dynasties painter Jing Hao, and the first Chinese work devoted to landscape theory.
Big Barda
Big Barda (Barda Free), DC Comics New God superheroine created by Jack Kirby, debuting in Mister Miracle #4 (1971): Apokolips-raised ex-leader of the Female Furies, wife of Mister Miracle, wielder of the Mega-Rod, member of the Justice League and Birds of Prey.
Big Nate
Big Nate is Lincoln Peirce's comic strip, syndicated since 1991, about 11-year-old Nate Wright of P.S. 38; it spawned bestselling illustrated novels from 2010 and Nickelodeon animated adaptations.
Big things (Australia)
Big Things are Australia's oversized roadside sculptures of everyday objects, over 1,000 nationwide, beginning with Ploddy the Dinosaur (1963) and the Big Banana (1964), celebrating regional products and identity.
Big Yam Dreaming
Big Yam Dreaming is a 1995 monochrome painting by the Anmatyerr artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, depicting her pencil yam Dreaming and held in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Bijapur painting
Bijapur painting is the Deccani court painting tradition of the 'Adil Shahi sultanate of Bijapur in India, flourishing from about 1560 to 1680 under Muslim patronage.
Bijinga
Bijinga (美人画, "pictures of beautiful women") is a Japanese genre of painting and woodblock prints depicting beautiful women, which grew out of ukiyo-e in the Edo period (1603-1868).
Bikaner school of painting
The Bikaner school of painting is a sub-school of Rajasthani miniature painting that arose at the Bikaner court around 1650 and is distinguished by its unusually direct borrowing from Mughal painting.
Bikash Bhattacharjee
Bikash Bhattacharjee (বিকাশ ভট্টাচার্য) was an Indian painter from Kolkata, known for photorealist and surrealist depictions of middle-class city life, including the Doll series of 1971.
Bil Keane
Bil Keane (William Aloysius Keane, 1922–2011), American cartoonist who created the single-panel comic The Family Circus in 1960, drew it from his family, pioneered the dotted-line Sunday panels, won the 1982 Reuben Award, and was succeeded by son Jeff Keane.
Bill Alexander (painter)
Bill Alexander (Wilhelm Alexander, 1915–1997), German-born painter and PBS host of The Magic of Oil Painting, popularized wet-on-wet oil painting in America and taught Bob Ross; distinct from the Georgia fiber artist and the 1767–1816 watercolorist.
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt, born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt in Hamburg (1904–1983), was a British photographer whose work moved from 1930s social documentary to high-contrast, wide-angle distorted nudes and landscapes.
Bill Cunningham
Bill Cunningham was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, widely described as a founder of street style photography for documenting what people actually wore on New York's streets.