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Star-spangled liar
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
