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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
All J.C., all the time
Happy Easter!
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Gatsby eat your heart out
Classic Hirst
“You don’t reject me, I reject you!”
Leonardo who?
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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...
Made in a cabin
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Wearing a vest of many colors
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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,...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
