• 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!  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 in October.  It departs in January for two more yet-to-be-named art museums.  Stay tuned!
• Commonalities between art history and football are few, 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! Then go here to identify all the famous women, frame by frame.  

Jump start your art history brain ... 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.