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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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