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Art History, But Make It Memes

Who Said Paintings Aren’t Memeable?

“Borrowed History” by Artist Tang Shuo

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From Botticelli to Beyoncé: the Ashmolean Museum’s ‘Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess’

Aphrodite. A goddess, an image, an icon. The goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality, known by the Romans as Venus, has appeared countlessly over the past 5000 years across a wide v...

15-Minute Lesson Plan: A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance

What can your students “see, think and wonder” about the artifacts in this rich collection?

Small Objects, Vast Histories in “Microhistories of the Andes” at the San Antonio Museum of Art

A microhistory highlights a single person, place, object, or event, and uses it as a window into broader historical questions. Through this methodology, Dr. Kris Driggers, curator...

Back to School With Winslow Homer

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Timeless Art Memes For The Modern Scroll

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French artist JR performs one of his characteristic jumps as he poses in front of his installation "DILUVIUM" at the Vatican Apostolic Library, at the Vatican. — Reuters

A Brief History of Stolen Paintings

At five minutes past seven in the morning of Monday 21st August 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian decorator, walked into the Louvre in Paris dressed in a white workman’s smock si...

Fragments of Hilma af Klint: Inspiration at the Grand Palais

The recent Hilma af Klint retrospective at the Grand Palais explored how the Swedish artist pioneered abstract painting. Here's a look inside.

Times When Sports Equals Art

Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance

Anstis' solo show 'Pastels' just opened at Olney Gleason in New York City. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent ar...

What I Learned in Art School

In 1993 I attended art school in a city that inspired everyone who lived there. It was a time close enough to my youth that I was able to abandon myself to the raucous nightlife it...

The History and Iconography of the Image of The Savior Not Made By Hands

Zhanna KurbatovaIn 1204, the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and carried the Image Not Made by Hands away from the Byzantine Empire. Its subsequent fate remains unknown.

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Tate Modern opens the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global photographic movement. From the 1880s, Pictorialism transformed photography from a documentary tool...

Prune Nourry Is Restoring the Faces of the Women Art History Erased

With a sculpture show at Paris’s Petit Palais, the artist honors talents that were never recognized.

'Here's looking at you, kid' - a heartbreak history

A new exhibition in Oxford attempts to chart the history of loves lost through various art mediums.

22 Art History Cats for Pet Parents Picking Up Painting This Spooky Season

Well, at least MOST of them are cats (we think).Cats are everywhere nowadays. They cheer us up by appearing on our daily feeds, or they throw our most breakable things over the nig...

Battle Paintings That Are Cool But Tragic

Titian masterpiece from Treviso comes to Rome

Titian's Annnunciaton goes on display at Galleria Borghese in Rome beside Sacred and Profane Love for the 450th anniversary of the artist’s death. A major altarpiece by Titian has...

5 Iconic Famous Paintings To Bring Classic Art Into Your Living Room

Blank walls don’t tell much about the person in the room. Printed reproductions are a more affordable substitute for original art, but they are often dull and not as closely connec...

A Lesson in Art Mastery: Degas’ Color Alchemy

Based on his academic training and bourgeois background, the career arc of Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) could hardly have been predicted. A draftsman with a deep understanding o...

Carravagio’s “Bacchus” saved after flash flood in the Uffizi

Torrential rains in Florence threatened to damage a painting of the god Bacchus by the Baroque master Caravaggio when a skylight leaked in the Uffizi gallery. Continue reading Carr...