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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
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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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
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
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A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
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Take that Uncle Sam!
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
