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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
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Before they hated each other's guts
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Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
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Long names and titles
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Act spontaneous!
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Possible peace portrait
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Diabeetus
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
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Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
