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Stop living in the past, man
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Most Egg-cellent
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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...
