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These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
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A true Romantic
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Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Openly gay, nasty personality, but untouchable because the Medicis loved him
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David gets sassy
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
Buy now on The Met Store
A Case of John Henryism
Carravagio having a bad head day
Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Ribbit, ribbit
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
"Puny Eunie"
She hated Frida Kahlo
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
T for Tony
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Can't get more LA than this
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Puff, puff, pass
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Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
Rich people in the '60s
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
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Hey big spender
Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
Sister sister
From portraitist to executioner?
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
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Gothic tipi?
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
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This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
So get ready!
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
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The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
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Bless your heart
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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