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Dreamed of a large Lincoln
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birth control or Bible stories?
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Let’s hope he never gets up
Crack open a cold one
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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A journalistic painting of WWII
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Made in a cabin
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Everyman painter
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
