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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Art on the walls and in the toilets
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
A good swattin’
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
Waiting on that free breakfast spread
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Made in a cabin
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
We dont need no education
Wearing a vest of many colors
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
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*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
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,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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...
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...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
