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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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We dont need no education
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
