• After intimations in the Vatican newspaper that The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence was a newly discovered Caravaggio painting, the Vatican Museums chief, Antonio Paolucci, announced in late July 2010 that it's a "modest" work by a Caravaggio follower.
• Caravaggio mania continues: now there's an extensive Caravaggio app for the iPhone and iPad.  I vote to bring art to students in a format they use!
• Italian researchers say they're nearly certain they've found the bones of Caravaggio -- read the latest (June 16, 2010) here.
• Art history books recommended by AP art history teachers and art appreciation teachers.  Fiction and non-fiction for one and all. 
• Famous paintings by Frida Kahlo are being shown at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.  These 120 works constitute the most extensive exhibit of the oeuvre of Kahlo. 
• The video of famous paintings enacted by Hold Your Horses! went wildly viral.  ARTnews digs into the creation of the video (the sky in the re-creation of  Michalengelo's Sistine chapel is the innards of 200 pillows!), and lists the famous paintings in Hold Your Horses'! video.
• The most comprehensive art exhibition of paintings by Frida Kahlo has opened in Berlin, and runs until 9 August 2010. 
• Inflatable street art: Joshua Allen Harris repurposes plastic trash bags, attaches them to street grates, and creates inflatable art that comes and goes with passing subway trains.  Brilliant.  
• Famous paintings a la You Tube: the Franco-American band, Hold Your Horses!, re-creates art history masterpieces in a video for its hit song, 70 Million.  Perfect for AP Art History class. See this 3 minute art history video.
• van Gogh painting: a newly attributed van Gogh appears in an art exhbition at the Museum Foundation in Zwolle.  Read about van Gogh's The Mill.
• Renoir in the 20th Century opened in February at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, a show of 54 late Renoir paintings.  This art review concludes that "Late Renoir is bad Renoir".  Read this art review of the Renoir exhibition.

• Titian's Diana and Actaeon now graces the National Gallery in London.  Jonathan Jones reports that it hangs near Cezanne's Grand Bathers and Rubens' Judgment of Paris.  Read about Jones' encounter with Titian (and start dreaming of seeing it).  Headed to London? Download our itinerary of  famous paintings to see at the National Gallery. 
• Picasso is coming to the Seattle Art Museum in October 2010. With renovation ongoing at the Musee National Picasso in Paris, Picasso's personal art collection (of 150 famous paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs) arrives this fall.  It departs in January 2011 for two more yet-to-be-named art museums.  Stay tuned!
• Commonalities between art history and football are hard to imagine, but one resulted after a bet between the directors of the Indianapolis and New Orleans Art Museums.  With the Saints' victory, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will lend its cherished J. M. W. Turner's The Fifth Plague of Egypt, which will hang in the New Orleans Art Museum beside its cherished Claude Lorraine landscape, Ideal View of Tivoli.   Read details here. 

Watch Women in Art.  This video of famous females in Western art is award-winning -- and it's no wonder! Stumped on whose these female artists are? Here are the answers to Women in Art, frame by frame.  

Identify art paintings and feed the poor... Read how the U. N. World Food Program and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have teamed together to donate rice to the world's neediest.  YOU make this happen by identifying art paintings -- each correct answer generates a donation of rice! 

Watch a recreation of Mona Lisa.  This YouTube video shows her portrait, created with oodles of cups of coffee of various strengths, and an army of volunteers.  See the new Mona Lisa! 

Read this article about how to write a strong art history paper.  It's here.