The Secret Art of Marbling
It’s the DIY to rule them all: marbling. As in, those hypnotic patterns you find…
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The Golden Age of the … Enema?!
Look, it wasn’t enough to have flawless skin, a great wig, and a plump derrière…
Art, But Make it Hot
The 18th century saw a decadent sexual revolution for the privileged, where the old-world pressures…
The Lost Romance of Dance Cards
If you’ve been watching Netflix’s sauciest new period drama, Bridgerton, your curiosity might have been…
Artist of the Week: She was a Victorian Rockstar Photographer
Julia Margaret Cameron revolutionized the world of photography. Known for her dreamy, soft-focus images and…
She was the Queen of the Cakewalk and the Most Famous Black Woman of the Gilded Age
In 1912, Aida Overton Walker stood at the top of the stairs at the Victoria…
Keeping up with Kitty, the First Woman to be Famous for Being Famous
The sex industry was one of 18th century Britain’s most lucrative enterprises, and the women…
13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 768)
1. Rarely seen photographs of Josephine Baker at the Ziegfeld Follies, 1936 By the middle…
Before Cher Horowitz had her Computer Closet, Marie Antoinette had the Wardrobe Book
Ask any millennial with a heartbeat for fashion about the 90s cult-classic film, Clueless, and…
The Mad, Mad Love of Man Ray & Lee Miller
She was the model and artist turned war correspondent. He was one of Surrealism’s most…
A Brief Compendium of the First Girl Groups, Forgotten in Music History
Before the Spice Girs, before Destiny’s Child and TLC, even before the Supremes, there was…
A Strange Abandoned Hiking Lodge No One Knew was Designed by Gaudi Himself
The world’s greatest artists aren’t supposed to have their work overlooked or unattributed, but it…