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SmoothNess, QuickNess, NessTalgia, ArlenNess
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
One high-class hog
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Latin LACMA
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
No boys allowed
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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:...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Butts, butts, butts, butts
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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....
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Too hot for some critics
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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,...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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....
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...