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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Topsy turvy
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Togas descending a staircase
Damaged goods
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The innocent hippopotamus
Falsely accused
More accurate title: mistress begs husband to leave horrid wife
Made in a cabin
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Wearing a vest of many colors
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Only men can see this one
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
They grow up so fast
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
Sorry PETA
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Act spontaneous!
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
