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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Calling all cynical pessimists!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
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The Ambassador Quintet
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Bless your heart
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Lest we forget
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
