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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A good swattin’
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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...
We dont need no education
Mining doesn’t cause death
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You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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....
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
