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  Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....

  The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo.  Photo @doedeerePablo...

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...

Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

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