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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Critics poo-poo him
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Jesus has had enough!
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It's a hard knock life
Young, dumb and in love
Bad and Boujee
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Monet’s lily pond salvation
Monet dancing in the snow
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Thou hast seen nothing yet
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Ciao from Venizia
Time-lapse photography was invented here
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Monet paints choo choo trains
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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Eye of the beholder
Same bridge, different day
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Freaky families
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
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San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
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Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
