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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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