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What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Pretty princesses
Pre-downward spiral
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Possible peace portrait
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
