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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...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Criticizing the critics
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
