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Another line drawn
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Now you see it, now you don't
Chase the rainbow
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Made in a cabin
Drawing class from hell
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
They're not making chili
Saint Selfie
It’s electric!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
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...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Neither fleeing nor hanging from a dog's mouth with a broken neck
If the Rocky Horror Picture Show had full frontal nudity
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Not as peaceful as it seems
Champion for equality in scholarship
What you didn't learn about him in grade school
Feet are kind of her thing
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Hello, Darkness my old friend
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Just some student work
Vive La Revolution!
Quit your squawking
View from inside
P-town Love
Who is she?
Blackening exercise
He is a she
Stairway to heaven
Brancusi stands out
Stairway to the future
Thunderbird meets Bear
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Coming to a tattoo near you
Haunted horse
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Old woman, old school
Study up!
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for commercialism
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
