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Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Island in the Plains
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So glamour. Such famous. All of the existential.
Hollyweird
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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:...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
So get ready!
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
“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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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,...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
Happiness and sanity are not correlated
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
