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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
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Great Scott!
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
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Sorry PETA
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Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Act spontaneous!
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Planting seeds
Portrait-ception
Not everyone's photogenic
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
