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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
So ugly you can’t look away
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Shoot first, ask questions later
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
“Viva os catadores!"
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
“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...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Step right up!
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
