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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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An unfortunate moral dilemma…
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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Pre-bullets in the neck
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
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Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
