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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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Hitler's jam
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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
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
“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
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Diabeetus
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Once Punched a Skeleton
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Possible peace portrait
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
