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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Life in the commune
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Made in a cabin
The patron saint of orgasms
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Wearing a vest of many colors
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Unfinished business
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“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...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
"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...
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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
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...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been 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...
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...
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...
