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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

Too much sexy time made this the last of the Raphaels

  Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...

They hated it then they loved it. The French will never be pleased

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

  The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...

In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...

It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...

I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo.  Photo @doedeerePablo...

"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...

Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...

One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...