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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Just another pervy kid in Paris
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Not allowed to be political
Check it out, bro!
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Just another naked lady
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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 (!)...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
