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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Art on the walls and in the toilets
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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A good swattin’
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
Waiting on that free breakfast spread
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Made in a cabin
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We dont need no education
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
