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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Not a feel-good kind of guy
A feast for the senses
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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One depressing miscommunication
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Row, row, row your boat
Do you need a doctor?
Made in a cabin
You can still go see one of their fingers and a tongue IRL
Wearing a vest of many colors
Two German friends lost amid a slaughter
Family portrait time!
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
That's my jam
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
“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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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....
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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’...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
