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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Part one of two!
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“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
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Turn that frown upside down
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Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Inspired by Keats's grave
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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“I've been everywhere, man...”
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Where my Doges at?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Milky (chocolate) Way
“Viva os catadores!"
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Upsetting
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Don't ask him to make copies
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
