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Made in a cabin
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
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...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Drawing crowds for 500 years
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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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...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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.
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
