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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Dreamed of a large Lincoln
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Not a one trick pony
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Let’s hope he never gets up
Crack open a cold one
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Buy now on The Met Store
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Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Flowers are heavy
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Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
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Bad beezy
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A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
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Banned for a while
If at first you don’t succeed...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Everyman painter
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
