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Look at art a little longer
You can call him "Good Time Sandy"
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
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The eagle that played hot potato
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The imaginary third vase
You say you want a revolution
honestly pretty vanilla
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All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One Who Is Talented
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
You've got a friend in me
Like you, when you're cranky
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Another unhappy ending
Act spontaneous!
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Badass portrait painter
Four Rothkos, One Bench
Nigeria, spirited away
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Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
It's like a painting, see?
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A Bieber tattoo
Did you say REDRUM?
On the outside looking in
The ten-dollar Founding Father
All-powerful, magical being
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
Art thieves caught red handed
No bra days are the best days
Playing dress up
As advertised
It really ties the room together
When your make-up artist at Sephora is secretly an expressionist
Good riddance to the haterz...and the Pharaoh
Serious hat envy
Give up the boot
Something here looks off
“You’re blocking my light”
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Slightly psychedelic
Urban anxiety aplenty
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Mary's big bro
The ineffective president
Paint me like one of your classmates
The bachelor president
Telekinesis never sounded so good
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Accidental POTUS
Alexander's not so well
More like Honest Babe
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Rage-inducing abstraction
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Mi concubine es su concubine!
Careful not to look crazy!
Choo choo twain
I want to paint it black
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Possible peace portrait
An artist of war
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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