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A true Romantic
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Buy now on Amazon
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
A man of many names and many loves
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
We exist in this space
The little ship that couldn't
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Love or hate?
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
Step right up!
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
Mamaaaaaaa
You don't need to be a scholar
Married the model
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
A stylistic orgy
2 dope queens
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Sisters before mistresses
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Such a punchable face
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
BFF's til the end
The greatest sacrifice
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
