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Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
The long-legged elephant in the room
Just another beheading. Yawn
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
"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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
A treasure trove of sculptures
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
