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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It's only natural
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Oh say can you see
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Hippest place in Brighton
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Made in a cabin
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Doctor Who is here a lot
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Bringing the inside out
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Considerable collections
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Reading rainbow
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
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
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
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
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Careful, might make you howl!
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
