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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
"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...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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...
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
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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...
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...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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...
