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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Goldman Sachs sell out
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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A sport lover's artwork
Swimming in color
Sips tea
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Before they hated each other's guts
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Basically the Matrix
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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:...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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....
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
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...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
