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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Celebration of America or communism?
The original grime artist
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Sips tea
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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....
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...