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Muse has Rodin by the junk
Too much monkey business
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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...
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
"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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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”...
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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
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...
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...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Openly gay, nasty personality, but untouchable because the Medicis loved him
Loves a tragic love story
Beware of the giant creepy people
Cali style, brah
It's taxidermatological
Wonky welder
A monumental talent
Sometimes being a latchkey kid pays off
International man of mysterious abstractions
Troublemaking brothers with a flair for shocking art
Stirs up controversy
Man of mystery
Save the horses!
No happy endings here
Sculptor, mother, housekeeper, and all around badass
Dreamed of a large Lincoln
Four feet of pure wildfire
Makes ordinary people fiberglass heroes
core-chalk jewel-cuff-ski
The marble-willed woman
Ten-Cent Drama
The woman who made Abe
Speaks through her art
Sculpting Empire
Will make sculpture out of food
Watch your step
A true pioneer
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Psychedelic sculptor
Maker of monuments, sculptures, houses, earthworks, parks, and environmental art.
Kept a personal burn book of the patrons and artists she liked
Believes sleep is a waste of time
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
He left us no clues about his sexuality
Loved latex, but it might have killed her in the end.
Won his first set of crayons in a contest
Lived life to the fullest
Horsing Around with Mud and Sticks
Escaped an asylum, sailed for New York, and settled in Mexico City
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
An artist so uncontroversial, even his portrait is in black and white.
Brothel artist
Age ain't nothing but a number
Say that name five times fast.
Managed to get exiled from France
Chewed socks and ate spiders
Confrontational to say the least
Just another Brooklyn artist/rumored gay icon
The art world's nomad
Out in the Renaissance while still in the closet
X Marx the spot
Not yet halo-worthy
Disturbing public opinion
Mad dog
Plaster king
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Gay, kinky, happy to stir controversy, brilliant, died of AIDS
Wanna get...Drrrty!
The ultimate cool beat chick
"I am the century"
Proved you actually can polish a turd
A whole lot of lovin'
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
From billboards to pop art was an easy transition...
The war made him sculpt noodle people
Sculpted strange tableaux, and died too young.
Nigerian born artist whose steel sculptures are equal parts politics and fashion
Just ask her out!
Speed, beauty, rhythm
Waited on that paycheck
When a fire starts to burn...she'll be there
Abracadabra!
He bled red, white and blue
Proving that hard work pays off in the end
You can do it, Otto!
Alcoholic womanizer who came to the US on a freight ship
Paints with all the colors of the wind
Economist turned artistic rabble rouser
Fierce!!
Sam the Draper
Almost murderer
Buckeye Buck
The cowboy artist
Painter and archaeologist
Who needs an American hero?
CA girls, they’re unforgettable
Of the so-called “fuck off generation” of Chinese artists
Not one but many selves
A perverted, morbid, horse loving adventurer. Fell off his horse and died
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
Fountain Lady
Over sexed murderer. Wrote a tell all autobiography that gets four and a half stars on Amazon.
More than Rodin's mistress
From children's books to the brothels of Jaffa
The uncanny valley of kitsch
Quick, put everything on the mattress!
Talented twins.
Brush is mightier than the stethoscope
Outsider
Her genital puns are not gentle
Came to Israel when it was Palestine and founded the first art school there
Picked a dangerous medium for someone so unlucky.
Trash to treasure
Let him blow ya mind
Brother nature
Hello Kitty on shrooms
Let your freak flag fly
Illustrator extraordinaire
Vomits rainbows
Held her own
Two-faced! But not how you think
First-lady of awesomeness
Genius from Korea
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Unlucky duck
Stalin wasn't a big fan.
Fancy a hairy omelet?
Outsider turned insider
Imaginary friends are cool!
