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Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Just another beheading. Yawn
The long-legged elephant in the room
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
