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Unchanged since 1918
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Thunderbird meets Bear
Bleeding red, white, and blue
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You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
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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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Drum roll!
A Horrifying History
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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!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
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An unfortunate moral dilemma…
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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It's ok to be king
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Disappearing act
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
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Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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USA's very first art school and museum
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
