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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A good swattin’
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Made in a cabin
We dont need no education
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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