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Koo Stark
Koo Stark, also Kathleen Norris Stark, is an American photographer and former actress (Emily, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) who dated Prince Andrew in 1982-1983, was mentored by Norman Parkinson, and exhibits Kintsugi photography held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Korean temple bells
Korean temple bells (범종, beomjong) are large cast bronze bells hung in Korean Buddhist temples to call the community and announce the time, a style set by Unified Silla bells of 725 and 771.
Kōrin Maki-e Box
The Kōrin Maki-e Box (光琳蒔絵硯箱) is a lacquer writing box by the Edo-period artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), combining gold maki-e with mother-of-pearl and lead inlay.
Kostromskaya stag
The Kostromskaya stag is a gold Scythian plaque of a recumbent stag, found in 1897 near Kostromskaya in the northern Caucasus and held in the Hermitage.
Kota painting
The Kota school is a school of Rajasthani miniature painting that grew out of the Bundi school at the court of Kota, Rajasthan, and became famous for hunting scenes.
Kota reliquary figures
Kota reliquary figures, known as mbulu ngulu, are metal-sheathed wooden guardian sculptures made by the Kota people of eastern Gabon for the bwete ancestor cult.
Kouros
Kouros (kouroi), Archaic Greek marble statue type of a nude standing youth, left foot forward, fists clenched; used as grave markers and votives, influenced by Egyptian statuary, with debated proportional canons and the contested Getty kouros.
Kremlin Armoury
The Kremlin Armoury (Оружейная палата) is the treasury museum of the Moscow Kremlin, first a royal workshop from the 1500s and made Moscow's first museum in 1806.
Krishen Khanna
Krishen Khanna (born 1925) is an Indian modernist painter, the last surviving member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay, known for figurative works depicting Partition and brass-band musicians.
Krishna dancing on Kaliya
Krishna dancing on Kaliya (Kaliyamardana) is an iconic Hindu art image type in which young Krishna dances on the serpent king's hoods, popular in Chola bronzes from the 9th to 13th century.
Krishna Govardhana of Phnom Da
The Krishna Govardhana of Phnom Da are monumental Khmer sandstone sculptures, carved around 600 CE in southern Cambodia, showing the god Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana to shelter his village.
Krishna Mandapa
The Krishna Mandapa is a 7th-century Pallava granite bas-relief at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, depicting Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana to shelter a village of cowherds and cattle from torrential rain sent by Indra.
Krishna Reddy (artist)
Krishna Reddy (1925–2018) was an Indian-born American printmaker, sculptor, and teacher who co-developed color viscosity printing at Atelier 17 in Paris and later founded New York University's printmaking department.
Krissy Taylor
Krissy Taylor (Kristen Erin Taylor, 1978–1995), American model and younger sister of supermodel Niki Taylor; over 13 magazine covers, Milan runways at 14, died at 17 in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Kritios Boy
The Kritios Boy is a marble statue of a nude standing youth from the Athenian Acropolis, dated after 480 BC and held in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Kryptos
Kryptos, Jim Sanborn's 1990 encrypted copper sculpture at CIA headquarters, Langley: four ciphers (K1-K4), three solved by 1999, K4 cracked via Smithsonian documents in 2025, archive auctioned.
Kuai Xiang
Kuai Xiang (蒯祥), called Kuai Luban, was a Ming dynasty master builder who led construction of Beijing's Forbidden City and is credited with designing Tiananmen.
Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie
Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie (快雪時晴帖) is a Tang dynasty tracing copy of a short greeting letter attributed to the Eastern Jin calligrapher Wang Xizhi, held in Taipei.
Kuba royal art
Kuba royal art is the court art of the Kuba Kingdom in the Congo basin, best known for its ndop royal portrait statues and geometric raffia cloth.
Kuba royal initiation and ndop context carvings
Kuba royal initiation and ndop context carvings center on ndop, idealized wooden portrait figures of Kuba kings, each marked by a personal emblem and used in enthronement and memorial rites.
Kudzanai Chiurai
Kudzanai Chiurai is a Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist born in Harare in 1981 whose photography, film, painting, and archival projects examine postcolonial Southern Africa; criticism of the Zimbabwean government led to his exile in South Africa.
Kun Can
Kun Can (髡残, 1612 to about 1673) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, one of the Four Monks alongside Shitao and Bada Shanren.
Kündekari
Kündekari (kündekârî; Ottoman Turkish كنده كارى) is an Islamic decorative joinery technique in which small geometric wooden pieces interlock without nails or glue, used on mosque doors and minbars.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is Capcom's 2024 Kagura action-strategy game, blending sword combat with tower defense as Soh protects the maiden Yoshiro from the Seethe on Mount Kafuku.
Kunle Adeyemi
Kunle Adeyemi (full name Solomon Adekunle Adeyemi, born 1959 in Ondo State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian visual artist and printmaker known for his Paintograph and Paintocast techniques.
Kurse (comics)
Kurse (comics): Marvel Comics Dark Elf, originally Algrim the Strong, created by Walt Simonson, debuting in Thor #347 (1984) and transformed by the Beyonder in Secret Wars II #4 (1985); later mantle held by Lady Waziria; MCU version played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters (Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters, 1887–1948), German artist and poet of Hanover who invented Merz, a collage-assemblage art from the word Kommerz, and built the Merzbau, destroyed 1943; exile artist distinct from formal Dada membership.
Kusakabe Kimbei
Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部 金兵衛, 1841–1934) was a Japanese commercial photographer who ran a celebrated studio in Yokohama from 1881, producing hand-colored souvenir photographs for foreign tourists.
Kushan art
Kushan art is the sculpture, coinage, and glyptic produced under the Kushan dynasty from the first to third centuries CE, stretching from north of the Oxus River to the Gangetic plain.
Kutani ware
Kutani ware (九谷焼, Kutani-yaki) is a Japanese overglaze-enamel porcelain first fired around 1655 in Kutani village, southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for bold decoration in green, yellow, red, purple, and blue.