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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
I want to paint it black
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
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Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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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...
“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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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....
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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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...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
