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Had a Chinatown family thing going on
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Mamaaaaaaa
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
The artist's favorite colleague
Lots of things can happen in a conservatory
Yes, hat shop brothels are a thing
Freshman english class flashbacks
Put me on the IMAX screen.
Naughty nana
Bless thy neighbor
*Spoiler* Dumbledore dies
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Killed by a roofer using a flue
You don't picnic in the buff?
Who's there?
Stealing glances, quite literally
Latte two sugars, please
Spring is here! Tra-la-li, tra-la-la
$1,000 on She’s a Diamond
Star pupil
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Manet's BFF
A place to be Seine
“Viva la Mexico”
Women can’t be jockeys
“You don’t reject me, I reject you!”
Fake matador, real muse
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Narrowly escaped the Nazis
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Señor Sticky Fingers
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Making fun of puritanical ideals
Crack open a cold one
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You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Cut him off!
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Quilting’s easy… if you’re a genius
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Escaped beheading to hang out with a cat
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or Picasso's, or Duchamp's, or de Kooning's
Southern Siamese slave-owners with sister wives
On again off again fake
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Who doesn't love people watching in the afternoon?
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
A bit stuck up, but painted the truth
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Off the wall
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Degas meets Rob Zombie
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
