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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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So get ready!
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
