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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Sad but true
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Oh say can you see
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A stiff upper lip
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Not Yosemite again, dad!
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I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Never forget
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2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Hippest place in Brighton
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Considerable collections
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Those Swiss have got it all!
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Watch now
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Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Take that Uncle Sam!
USA's very first art school and museum
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
