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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
