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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
So get ready!
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Only men can see this one
Big Alma celebrates a "win" (Filipinos may see it differently)
Flavin knows how to work smarter, not harder.
Because Prince Charming doesn’t exist
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
Cheshire Cat?
These women rock
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Branch out
The Neverending Memorial
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Probably haunted
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
