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Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Oh, you know, just vomiting a frog
Judgment day is apparently going to involve some perverted violence
More weirdness from Bosch
Buyer's remorse
Polish censors do not approve of perverted orgies or of this painting
Insane in the membrane
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Wearing a vest of many colors
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
