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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
