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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Joanna and Abigail in the sky with diamonds
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Phew, that was close.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Eye of the beholder
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Not for acrophobes
Made in a cabin
A-Hunting We Will Go
Wearing a vest of many colors
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...
Secret homework
Everyone has a goth phase
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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,...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
