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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When you can’t pick a paint swatch
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Made in a cabin
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Wearing a vest of many colors
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Sorry PETA
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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:...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Think of what you'd save on wrinkle cream...
Bringin' sexy back
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Possible peace portrait
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
All is not what it seems in this trippy triptych
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
