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The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Too cool for New Zealand
The floor is lava
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The debate rages on
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Red is the coldest color
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:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
A treasure trove of gold
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
We want the Funk
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
New medium, who dis?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Pre-bullets in the neck
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Island in the Plains
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
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...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
