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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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"My swamp picture"
Multi-use materials
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Colossally romantic
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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So this is why they call them blueprints
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Everyone has a goth phase
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
