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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
