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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Big Alma's pride and joy
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
19th Century Wolverine
Some say it ruins the view
Rocked the Rococo World
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
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Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It's a hard knock life
Young, dumb and in love
Bad and Boujee
Late night liaisons
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
Thou hast seen nothing yet
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Grisly murder
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
So get ready!
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
