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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
A somber portrait lurks behind a somber portrait
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Made in a cabin
Fake matador, real muse
How do I look?
Wearing a vest of many colors
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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