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Prolific in art and marriage.
Portrait painter
Kabuki theater changed her life
It's taxidermatological
Savvy politician and ladies' man
Death's photographer
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
Hypebeast or hipster?
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Buy now on Amazon
Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Where's that dam photo?
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Mother in law
Token of a troubled bromance
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
Badass portrait painter
Balling all over the world
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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A monument to real estate developer's guilt
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes
Destroyer of dragons
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Beauty is pain
How many Nefertitis is too many Nefertitis?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
Brains and beauty
The First Date
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
It came back positive
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Cloned but not forgotten
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
Balling with Garfield
I’m riding that hippo first!
The ineffective president
The bachelor president
So this is why they call them blueprints
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
Accidental POTUS
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Twenty-seven, Balling
Stalwart no more
More like Honest Babe
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Unfinished business
Highly disturbing
A star is born
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
She is goals
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
California Girl
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
