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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
A true Romantic
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
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
A man of many names and many loves
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The little ship that couldn't
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
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
Sisters before mistresses
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Such a punchable face
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
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
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...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
BFF's til the end
The greatest sacrifice
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
So get ready!
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
