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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Made in a cabin
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Wearing a vest of many colors
One high-class whore
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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:...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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....
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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...
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...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...