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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
Not suitable for children
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Sweet baby Jesus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Crack that whip
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Girl crush
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Is...that how you do it?
Frenemies
Total poser
The past is female
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Before things got ugly life was very good
From portraitist to executioner?
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Mo money, mo problems
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Don't call it a comeback
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
After 200 years we have the truth
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
The ultimate cool beat chick
One wild and sexy lady
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
