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When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
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Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Has no time for white BS
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Floating, we're floating
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
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Southern Siamese slave-owners with sister wives
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Unchanged since 1918
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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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Calling all cynical pessimists!
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The world's newest most expensive painting
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One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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An unfortunate moral dilemma…
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
