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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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"I am the century"
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Let it all hang out
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Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Sit! Stay...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Considered so outrageous, it wasn't shown for decades
Not Scarface but scarchest?
A hairy art critic
Find his porno under Kirk Wolff
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Weird science
Reluctant heroine of Women's Liberation
god of the theatre
Soul of an art critic
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Hubba hubba
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
A picture worth a thousand words
It began with a coffee date
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Boss lady
Politics from a portraitist
So get ready!
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Against our own self-interest
Inmate turned art legend
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Badass quilter is not an oxymoron
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
birth control or Bible stories?
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Here comes “Wonderwall”
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
A journalistic painting of WWII
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!
Rock the vote
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Not so Plastic Pat
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Examine your systemic racism
Mining doesn’t cause death
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Stolen, found, but not returned
They really do fart rainbows
These are not Legos
An understatement if there ever was one
Historians love to diagnose him
Follow the bwown wabbit
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
He's a little young for fetish play
Degas paints puberty
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Quit your squawking
Pay attention to the peonies
A mystery lady
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
He is a she
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
COTTON EYED JOE
Go Pirates
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Classic incest
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
Pink feathers and death sentences
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Flip it and reverse it
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Russian Ark
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Should we do as they say, not as they do?
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
How times have changed...
The Ambassador Quintet
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Funky art in the heart of farm country
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The Latin LACMA
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
