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Careful, might make you howl!
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Not allowed to be political
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Never forget
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Hippest place in Brighton
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Considerable collections
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Those Swiss have got it all!
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Watch now
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Take that Uncle Sam!
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
USA's very first art school and museum
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
