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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Orphan, workaholic, died "from excessive devotion to his art" (or stomach cancer)
A case of post mortem hype
Imaginary friends are cool!
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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In dad's shadow
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....
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Son of Cranach the Elder
Early photoshopper
Worked for big Henry
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
What the visiting English Duke wants, the visiting English Duke gets
Napoleon's sister was a naughty girl
birth control or Bible stories?
Make it rain
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Napoleon did not like it
Perhaps these cultural references were lost
cowering from his wife
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Ribbit, ribbit
She used a good filter
Loved embroidery, propriety, and murderous royals
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
Hubba hubba
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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...
T for Tony
Wholesome theft
Puff, puff, pass
"Wish you were here!"
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Troublemaker!
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...
Bow down
Taking one for the team
Study up!
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Hey big spender
Drunk on victory
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
French portrait inception
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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...
So get ready!
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Before postcards, there was Canaletto
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Where Surrealism ends, Ab-Ex begins
