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Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We dont need no education
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
