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Franz Struck, The Sin detail via Artsy

Femme Fatales

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Joe Colombo via Italian Design Club

Joe Colombo

Feature image: Joe Colombo via Italian Design Club Joe Colombo Designers throughout history have constantly...

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AXIS 2024 part 2. Katya Savel 021gallery Exhibition View

021gallery: AXIS 2024

021gallery: AXIS 2024 Annually held by 021gallery, ‘AXIS 2024’ is a young artist project. It...

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This artist's impression illustrates how high-speed jets from a supermassive black hole would look. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO))

The Art of the Universe: How Artists Render Our Galaxy’s Mysteries

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Luchita Hurtado via artist website

Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected

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Project 270 - 2024 Vincent Valdez

Project 270: Get Out the Vote

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Clown Torture via Stedelijk Museum © 2024 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Bruce Nauman’s “Clown Torture” (1987)

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Vampire, Edvard Munch, 1895 via Wikipedia

Vampires in Art History

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David Goodsell primary

Bioinformatics Art

Bioinformatics Art Bioinformatics art flips visualizations of human progress on its head by combining biological...

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 Remedios Varo, El Flautista, 1955. Courtesy Museo de Arte Moderno

7 Haunted Paintings

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teamLab, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – Transcending Boundaries, A Whole Year per Hour, 2017. Sound: Hideaki Takahashi. Installation view of 'Every Wall is a Door', Superblue Miami, 2021. © teamLab. Courtesy of Pace Gallery,

What the Buzz: Art Buzzword Guide

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Harlequin Family, Picasso, 1905 via Pop Culture History

Harlequin to Harley Quinn

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Emilie Flöge via Harpers Bazaar

Emilie Flöge: The Woman Behind Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”

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Rogelio de Egusquiza, Tristan and Isolt (Death), 1910 via Google Arts Project

The Myth of Tristan and Isolde Throughout Art History

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Guerilla Girls and the Fight for Equality

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021gallery Seokheon Jang Installation View

021gallery Hosts ‘AXIS 2024’

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Ceiling Mosaic in Galla Placidia Tomb

The Greatest Ancient Mosaics

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_Brat_ album cover, 2024, Asylum, Atlantic and Warner UK, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

How Charli XCX’s “Brat” Became the Soundtrack of Summer

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Dido and Elizabeth via Wikipedia

Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray

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Do ‘Evil’ Art Collectors Curate Better Art?

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Tiffany lamps via Christie's

Tiffany Studios and Its “Million Dollar” Lamps

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Artwork by Kristian Hammerstad via The New York Times

Art and True Crime: A Commentary/Discussion of Murderous Masterminds

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Remedios Varo,  Self-portrait with Unicorn, private collection, via Daily Art Magazine

Self-Portraits by Women

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Venus figurines; Natural History Museum Vienna

Are They Really Venus?

Feature image: Venus figurines via Natural History Museum Vienna Are They Really Venus? 50,000 to...

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Brigid Berlin, Our Guests, 1968-72 via AnOther Magazine

The Art of Scrapbooking

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Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445 courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Artsy

The Fig Leaf Campaign: The Genesis of Art Censorship

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Swimming pool at Coronado Club, Sandia Corporation, 1951, courtesy of the Albuquerque Museum via the Albuquerque Journal

“Nuclear Communities of the Southwest” Exhibit

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Caravaggio, The Beheading of Saint John, 1608 via Sotheby's

The Problematic Life of Caravaggio

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Frank Stella 1995

Frank Stella

Frank Stella Frank Stella was a well-known contemporary New York-based painter, sculptor, and printmaker. During...

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Helter Skelter in the Courtroom via DeMilked

The Art of Judicial Sketches

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École des beaux arts (from the live), Image via Wikimedia commons (Public domain)

Artist Appreciation Month: 5 Simple Ways to Support Artists This August

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The Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Photo courtesy of the Dallas Art District.

What Happened To Good Architecture?

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Image courtesy of Marquise Covington of ddimediagroup

Holding Space: Dreams, and Memories in Durham’s Ella West Gallery

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Woman Combing her Hair, Władysław Ślewiński, 1909 via Google Arts and Culture

Hairy Art

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Edgar Degas, Blue Dancers, 1899, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia. Detail

Degas' Ballerinas

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Lady Gaga's album cover for ARTPOP via Variety

Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP & Its Artistic Inspirations

Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP & Its Artistic Inspirations Lady Gaga is one of the biggest pop...

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Pink Race Riot, photograph by Gene Pittman via Sotheby's

Andy Warhol’s Most Transgressive Subjects

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[Together Apart, Covet the senses of three.] Exhibition Installation View

021gallery: 「 Together Apart : Covet the senses of three. 」

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André Lhote (1885-1962), Les Rugbymen, circa 1917 (detail). © André Lhote, DACS 2023

Cubism

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“The Wonderland - Porcelain” by DodoChang. Photo courtesy of DodoChang on Instagram.

5 Potters You Need to Follow on Instagram

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Carlos Martiel, Ciudad via artist website

Bury Yourself in Art

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Voguing at Masquerade Ball, 2016, S Pakhrin from DC, USA, CC BY 2.0 _https_creativecommons.org_licenses_by_2.0_, via Wikimedia Commons

The History of Voguing

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Jasper Johns, Three Flags via the Whitney Museum of American Art

Patriotism in Art

Feature image: Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958 via the Whitney Museum of American Art Patriotism in...

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LOVE BRAND & Co. Partners with Elephant Family USA as the Official Retail Partner of 'The Great Elephant Migration' 2024

LOVE BRAND & Co. Partners with Elephant Family USA as the Official Retail Partner of 'The Great Elephant Migration' 2024

LOVE BRAND & Co. Partners with Elephant Family USA as the Official Retail Partner of...

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Sacha Jafri working on the world's largest painting at 17,000 square feet, Pyong Sumaria, 2020 via Art News; Sold for $62 million in 2021

Art and Scale

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Johnathan Yeo's portrait of King Charles after the unveiling via Smithsonian Mag; Aaron Chown-WPA Pool / Getty Images

What Exactly Is Going on with King Charles' Portrait?

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Vincent Van Gogh, The Drinkers, 1953, Art Institute of Chicago via Wikidata

Art and Alcohol

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Art Exhibit at ALMA

Inflatable Art

Feature image: Art exhibit at ALMA via ESO.org Inflatable Art Inflatable art is one medium...

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Matryoshka Verse

SCAD Contemporary Art Museum

SCAD Artists In May 2024, I traveled to Savannah, Georgia, where I visited the SCAD...

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