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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Horse on a treadmill
A burn too sick for the ER
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Lange is holding a camera! Really!
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An obvious wrong
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An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Waiting for the white angel
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...
Hungry
That sass though
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Ain't that a kick?
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Are you sure that’s all you’re selling?
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Only men can see this one
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
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...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Who is she?
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Live easels
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From portraitist to executioner?
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The penis is v. important in this one
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
There's no one quite like her
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...