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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
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...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Criticizing the critics
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Act spontaneous!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Planting seeds
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
(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...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
‘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
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
(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....
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
(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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Possible peace portrait
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...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
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...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
