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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Sad but true
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
A good swattin’
A stiff upper lip
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Epileptics beware
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
We dont need no education
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Careful, might make you howl!
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
