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Fountain Lady
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Origami doughnut
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Go away Apple!
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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
X” Marks the Spot
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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