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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
