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"Fish are friends, not food"
Witch, please
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Critics poo-poo him
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
"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...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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....
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
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...
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...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
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...
