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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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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...
Emasculates the German government
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.