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This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Farmers loosing up
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
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Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
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Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Light up the night!
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
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Rain on me
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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