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If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Stop living in the past, man
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Most Egg-cellent
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Made in a cabin
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Wearing a vest of many colors
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
USA's very first art school and museum
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
