Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.
If you never know how to respond when people ask how you're doing, these memes are for you.
15 Classical Art Memes For All The Cultured Snobs - Funny memes that "GET IT" and want you to too. Get the latest funniest memes and keep up what is going on in the meme-o-sphere.
These Classical Art Memes Are Better Than Going To The Museum.
Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.
Inside the museum-like London home of Peter Hone, whose collection of statues, sculptures and architectural fragments is offered in our Interiors sale on October 26
1. King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He refused to buy and paid the chemist an annual salary to never sell his weapon to anyone else.
The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a […]
Louise White of Newport, Rhode Island had won the sixth largest jackpot in U.S. history.
Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.
In the hands-on Silk Road game, players travel the Marco Polo Silk Road through dangerous deserts to far cities. Can they trade for a profit back in Venice?
Once you have seen a painting by Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch you are not likely to forget it. His paintings are littered with extraordinary images.
Today’s guest blogger is Helen Hall, an expert in entertainment memorabilia and the director of Dig Gallery in London.In 2005, I moved to New York to he...
(photo from a tapestry) The woman to whom "The Book of the Duchess" by Geoffrey Chaucer is dedicated to, Blanche of Lancaster, was th...
For most people who sew irons are the second big expense after a sewing machine. I have put together this iron buying guide to help you navigate the process of choosing (and buying) your next iron. Getting an iron can be as complicated as figuring out which sewing machine would suit you best. So I compiled some information and advice, backed by my big sewing experience.
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The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for its brutality and savagery, even by the standards of the Middle Ages. It was marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, deeds commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here, in the first […]
Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829-1890) The Reluctant Bride, 1866
Comparing Yinka Shonibare The Swing (after Fragonard) with the original painting and exploring the commentary on race, class, and multiculturalism.
Some of what passed for everyday life 75 or 100 years ago would send you running screaming in the other direction today. And when those scenes are captured on grainy old-school film, you get the stuff of nightmares.
The author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments" unpacks the way "all speculative fiction writers are writing about the present and the past."
There are a lot of Tumblrs out there that stick a bunch of pictures up and don't tell you anything about it. Black and WTF is a fascinating photoblog that's dedicated to doing its homework on some of the wackiest, most inexplicable black and white photographs from the past. Some of the images and th
Fun furniture, whimsical wallpapers and the world's most beautiful hotels
The dramatic confrontation between Harold of England and William of Normandy at Senlac Ridge in 1066 was the result of almost a century of political and dynastic struggles. Paul Hill explores the prolonged death-throe of Anglo-Saxon England – a story of murder, treachery and ambition – and of a foreign predator with a talent for […]
Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a ‘golden age’ and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain. The wealthy owners of a villa […]
Can the lips and dig the crazy Beatnik jazz...
Sanora Babb wrote about a family devastated by the Dust Bowl, but she lost her shot at stardom when John Steinbeck beat her to the punch
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