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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Whodunnit??
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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