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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,...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Criticizing the critics
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Sorry PETA
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...
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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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Possible peace portrait
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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...
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...
