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Russian Ark
At the opera with Manet’s only student
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Made in a cabin
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
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...
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,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
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...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
