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Dreamed of a large Lincoln
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Let’s hope he never gets up
Crack open a cold one
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Wearing a vest of many colors
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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:...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
Everyman painter
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,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
