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The milk of human kindness! As in literal milk. Of kindness.
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Yeah, you like Shakespeare--but will you die for him?
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Art, science, history, politics, and the magic of a portrait
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Five things I learned at the museum
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Random skimmings from my New York Museum tours
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Art overload!
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The Art of the Bard
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If up's the word: spring and e.e.cummings
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Survival of the most elegant: Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
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Stormy weather: Wind, rain and lightning in art
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Aesthetics versus ideas: Ligon, Paterson, Mucha and Duchamp, who somehow nosed his way in again
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Alphonse Mucha and different ways of looking at art history
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Looking at Art: Michelangelo's "Last Judgment," Part I
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Genius, misery, and Mozart: Allegri's "Miserere"
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Looking at Art: Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera"
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Looking at art: Pieter Breughel's "Netherlandish Proverbs"
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George Washington's toenails! More details of Horatio's Greenough's Neoclassical goof-up.
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Looking at Art: Bronzino's "Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time"
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Flinging a pot of paint in the public's face: On the life of John Ruskin
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Star light, star bright: when art and astronomy meet
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- The milk of human kindness! As in literal milk. Of kindness.
So you know that Time cover everyone’s talking about of the breastfeeding mom? It ain’t got nothing on Rubens, Caravaggio, Memling and a bunch of other artists. Enter the weird world of breastfeeding art, where not all the breastfeed-ees are babies.
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"Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'" No American artwork has been parodied more than American Gothic. Zombies, dogs, Beavis and Butthead, the Muppets, Lego figures, and even Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton have taken a turn with the pitchfork. But the painting itself is no joke--American Gothic is as recognizable as the Mona Lisa and The Scream. mental_floss, Jan/Feb 2012.
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- Krys Boyd, Host of KERA 90.1’s Think!, on Secret Lives of Great Artists
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