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The seat of the United States Congress
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....
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What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
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...
The floor is lava
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A treasure trove of gold
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The land of breast milk and honey
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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Secretary of Badassery
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
New medium, who dis?
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
