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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Not a one trick pony
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Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
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Friends with all the superstars
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Reflecting on a revolution
Bad beezy
Rocking the five-head
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
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I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
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Banned for a while
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Velázquez inceptioned this painting
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Wrapped in red
It’s getting hot in Seville
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Anything for the king
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Habsburgs on the Hunt
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
