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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Made in a cabin
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Wearing a vest of many colors
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
Click here for love potion recipe
Avada Kedavra
Pool party
Manet could never
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Urban anxiety aplenty
Cut him off!
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Just another naked lady
Witness her
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
A bargain at twice the price
Three guys walk into a bar...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Careful, might make you howl!
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
