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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...

Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...

Protecting Catholicism since 1609

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

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

If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...

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

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

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

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

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

  Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...

This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

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

This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.

To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...

Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

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

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....