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When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
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Has no time for white BS
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Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Unchanged since 1918
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
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Thunderbird meets Bear
Bleeding red, white, and blue
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Drum roll!
A Horrifying History
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
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Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Calling all cynical pessimists!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
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One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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Swastikas were ok at the time
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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A tell-all title
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
