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Cowboys and Leathergirls
May be the home of a mysterious monster
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
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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....
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
growing up fast
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
Waity Katie no more!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A very weird rock
Protection money being handed over; the Pope who pays gets to watch
Seven shades of black
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Just a martyr girl gang
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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...
What’s more alarming: an avalanche or climate change?
It says “nude,” right?
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
#MeToo circa 1600
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Alexander's not so well
Beauty is the brains
Stiff upper lip
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Mi concubine es su concubine!
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...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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...
