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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Another line drawn
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Now you see it, now you don't
Chase the rainbow
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Drawing class from hell
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
They're not making chili
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Saint Selfie
It’s electric!
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...
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
