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Stolen for the nicest reasons
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Finally, a female gaze
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...