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Bill Henson
Bill Henson, born in Melbourne in 1955, is an Australian photographer known for darkly toned images of figures and landscapes, first exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria at age 19.
Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born 1946), American independent animator and cartoonist from Oregon, twice Oscar-nominated for Your Face and Guard Dog; known for hand-drawing every frame of adult animated features himself.
Bill Reid
Bill Reid, born William Ronald Reid (1920–1998), was a Haida Canadian master goldsmith and sculptor whose works, including The Raven and the First Men, revived Haida art.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz (born 1958, Blakely, Pennsylvania), American comic artist known for Moon Knight, New Mutants, Elektra: Assassin, and Stray Toasters; Eisner winner and Hall of Fame inductee.
Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor was an African American self-taught artist, born into slavery in Alabama, who made over 1,000 drawings and paintings beginning around 1939 at about age 85.
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (1951–2024), American video art pioneer, created slow-motion immersive installations such as The Greeting, Nantes Triptych, and St Paul's Cathedral's Martyrs and Mary, drawing on Renaissance painting and Zen, Sufi, and Christian mysticism.
Bilquis Evely
Bilquis Evely (born 1990, São Paulo) is a Brazilian comic artist known for Wonder Woman, The Dreaming, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow with Tom King, and Helen of Wyndhorn; 2025 Eisner winner, first Brazilian to win.
Bimaran casket
The Bimaran casket, also called the Bimaran reliquary, is a small gold Buddhist reliquary found at Bimaran, near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, now in the British Museum.
Bird in Space
Bird in Space (L'Oiseau dans l'espace) is a sculpture series by Constantin Brancusi, begun in marble in 1923, reducing a bird in flight to one elongated polished form.
Bird-and-flower painting
Bird-and-flower painting (huaniao hua) is one of the three principal genres of traditional Chinese painting, matured in the Song dynasty and later transmitted to Japan.
Bird's-eye view
Bird's-eye view: a view from directly above, also a 19th-century American drawn city panorama (about 2,400 communities, 1830s-1920s), a 90-degree film camera angle, and a BEV representation in computer vision for autonomous driving.
Biren De
Biren De (বীরেন দে, 1926–2011) was an Indian Bengali painter known for the Neo-Tantric style he developed in the 1960s, blending geometric abstraction with Tantric symbols.
Birth of the New World
Birth of the New World (Nacimiento del Nuevo Mundo, La Estatua de Colón) is a 110-meter bronze Christopher Columbus statue by Zurab Tsereteli in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, completed 2016; tallest sculpture in the Western Hemisphere, rejected by several U.S. cities.
Bisj pole
A bisj pole is a tall carved wooden memorial pole made by the Asmat people of southwestern New Guinea for a memorial feast honoring the dead.
Bizarre ware
Bizarre ware is a range of brightly colored, hand-painted English earthenware created by ceramic designer Clarice Cliff and produced from 1927 at the Newport Pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire.
Bizarro (comic strip)
Bizarro is Dan Piraro's single-panel syndicated newspaper cartoon, launched February 10, 1985 via Chronicle Features and now distributed by King Features, known for surreal gags, hidden symbols, and National Cartoonists Society awards.
Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM), coined by Larry Neal, was the cultural wing of Black Power, roughly 1965-1976, founded around Amiri Baraka's Harlem theater, producing Black art for Black audiences across poetry, drama, music, and photography.
Black British art
Black British art is visual art made in Britain by artists of African, Caribbean, Asian, and Middle Eastern and North African descent, named as a field in the 1980s.
Black folk art in the American South
Black folk art in the American South is visual art by untrained African American Southern artists using found and handmade materials to address religion, memory, and race.
Black Iris
Black Iris is a 1926 oil painting by the American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe, showing a single dark iris enlarged far beyond lifesize so the flower fills the canvas.
Black Paintings
Black Paintings (Pinturas negras): fourteen murals Goya painted 1819–1823 in oil on the walls of his Quinta del Sordo near Madrid, including Saturn Devouring His Son; transferred to canvas in 1874 and now in the Prado.
Black-and-white
Black-and-white photography is a general designation for processes producing gray or sepia tones. The daguerreotype was the first public process in 1839, followed by gelatin silver in the 1880s.
Blinking Sam
Blinking Sam is the 1775 Joshua Reynolds oil portrait of Samuel Johnson reading at close range, painted for Henry Thrale, now at the Huntington Library, named for Johnson's protest against it.
Bliz-aard Ball Sale
The Bliz-aard Ball Sale is an unannounced 1983 street action by David Hammons, who sold snowballs of graduated sizes at Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan.
Blolo bian
A blolo bian is a carved wooden figure made by the Baule people of Côte d'Ivoire representing the male spirit spouse a person left behind in the other world at birth.
Blood Hunt (comics)
Blood Hunt is a 2024 Marvel Comics crossover event by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz in which eternal night falls and vampires led by Varnae and the Bloodcoven conquer Earth; a five-issue series with many tie-ins, inspiring a Marvel Rivals season.
Bloodwynd
Bloodwynd is a DC Comics necromancer hero powered by the Blood Gem, created by enslaved people who imprisoned a plantation owner's soul. Debuting in Justice League America #61 (1992), the name was first worn by a manipulated Martian Manhunter; the real wielder was Quintus Arce, and since 2023 it is Raphael Arce.
Blue Mosque, Tabriz
The Blue Mosque (Masjed-e kabud) is a 15th-century mosque in Tabriz, Iran, completed in 1465 under the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty and famed for its blue tilework.
Blue Mustang
Blue Mustang, officially Mustang/Mesteño and nicknamed Blucifer, is a 32-foot, 9,000-pound blue cast-fiberglass horse with glowing red eyes by Luis Jiménez at Denver International Airport, installed 2008; a section fell on and killed Jiménez in 2006.
Blue-and-green landscape
Blue-and-green landscape, or qinglü shanshui, is a Chinese landscape painting genre using mineral azurite and malachite pigments, one of the two main modes of Chinese landscape painting.