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July 29 is International Tiger Day! 🐅

This beautiful tiger-form Cizhou ware pillow dates from a time when tigers were not yet an endangered species.

In China, the tiger symbolized strength, the cardinal direction east, yin, and in Buddhism, solitary enlightenment. Ceramic pillows like this were prized for their cooling qualities and auspicious meanings.

In 2010, the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia established International Tiger Day to address the alarming fact that 97% of wild tigers had disappeared over the previous 100 years. The observance has since helped advance anti-poaching efforts, protect animal habitats, and educate the public.

Read more about the history, symbolism, and artistry of this remarkable object at CuratorsCorner.com.

Artwork: China, Southern Song Dynasty, Tiger-form pillow, 1182, Cizhou ware earthenware, 11.1 × 17.1 × 36.8 cm. © 2026 Brooklyn Museum (BMA-5374)

Davis Correlation: Exploring Visual Design 5E, Lesson 6.4, Looking at Art: Texture

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Artist Birthday | Raymond Pettibon (born July 16, 1957)

Raymond Pettibon's influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings draw on the visual rhetoric of popular and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media and classic literature.

Beginning in 1985, Pettibon created his iconic series of wave drawings, often depicting the lone surfer carving "a line of beauty" along an impossibly large wave. He described these works as the ultimate depictions of the "man alone at sea," capturing both the power of nature and a fleeting sense of liberation from everyday concerns.

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Image: No Title (Well, you needn't...) (detail), 1997, acrylic wall painting, ca. 213 × 916 cm. Installation at David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. © 2026 Raymond Pettibon. (ART21RP-70)

Today is National Hot Dog Day! 🌭

Because of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage
Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill.
The observance occurs every year on a Wednesday in July. Also, July is considered National Hot
Dog Month.

To mark the occasion, we're featuring Robert Abel's vibrant 1975 advertisement for 7UP. Posters such as this were essential to the visual identity of 1970s television advertising, showcasing some of the first combinations of live action with computer animation.

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Shown here: Robert Abel, advertisement for 7UP, 1975, offset lithograph on paper, 115 × 151 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2026 Artist or Estate of Artist (MoMA-D0568).