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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Wearing a vest of many colors
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Made in a cabin
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Great Scott!
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Sorry PETA
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Act spontaneous!
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Planting seeds
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Not everyone's photogenic
Portrait-ception
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
A star is born
I want to paint it black
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Olympia who?
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
