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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Whodunnit??
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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 San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Loves ants
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Great beard, better art
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Still waters run deep
She's still Jenny from the Block
Museum as canvas
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Renaissance woman
Once Punched a Skeleton
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Queen of appropriation
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Making subversive art under the radar
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
From ant watcher to artist
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Classic cosplay
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
The art world's thesaurus
Not a feel-good kind of guy
Obsessed with calligraphy
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
Rock on Yves...
From begging to bed-in
Bad boy from Switzerland
The rabble-rouser herself
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
"Talent is cheap"
Nature collagist
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Genius from South Central
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Crazy camel lady
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...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Sol for president
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
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,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
