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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Censorship makes us crabby
"My swamp picture"
Multi-use materials
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Colossally romantic
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Everyone has a goth phase
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
