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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Young, dumb and in love
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
TGIF
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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