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It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Epileptics beware
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Made in a cabin
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Careful, might make you howl!
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Painter and archaeologist
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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.
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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...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
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...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
