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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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"I am the century"
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Against our own self-interest
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Inmate turned art legend
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Badass quilter is not an oxymoron
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Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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birth control or Bible stories?
Let it all hang out
Here comes “Wonderwall”
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Sit! Stay...
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!
Rock the vote
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Watch now
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Not so Plastic Pat
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Considered so outrageous, it wasn't shown for decades
Not Scarface but scarchest?
A hairy art critic
Find his porno under Kirk Wolff
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Weird science
Reluctant heroine of Women's Liberation
god of the theatre
Soul of an art critic
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
So get ready!
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
We don't need to know the way home
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Examine your systemic racism
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Hubba hubba
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
A picture worth a thousand words
It began with a coffee date
Mining doesn’t cause death
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Stolen, found, but not returned
They really do fart rainbows
These are not Legos
An understatement if there ever was one
Historians love to diagnose him
Follow the bwown wabbit
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Boss lady
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
He's a little young for fetish play
Degas paints puberty
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Quit your squawking
Pay attention to the peonies
A mystery lady
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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He is a she
Politics from a portraitist
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Go Pirates
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Who says you can't marry your cousin?
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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
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More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
COTTON EYED JOE
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Classic incest
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
Pink feathers and death sentences
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Oldest museum in the world
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Treasures around every corner
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
One of our favorites in DC
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Flip it and reverse it
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Russian Ark
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Former tobacco plantation
Should we do as they say, not as they do?
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
How times have changed...
The Ambassador Quintet
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Latin LACMA
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Bless your heart
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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