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One of the guys.
City living
When life hands you lemons, paint squiggles
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Prolific in art and marriage.
Hallucinated his way to the top
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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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 country does what the city cannot
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...
Mother in law
Why so bleu?
Most sur-realest
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
A monument to real estate developer's guilt
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes
Destroyer of dragons
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Oh, to the beat of the people in the night / Dance until the morning light
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
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...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
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...
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
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...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The ultimate cool beat chick
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...