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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
