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Looking to trade chapel for eternal salvation
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Too much sexy time made this the last of the Raphaels
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
They hated it then they loved it. The French will never be pleased
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
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...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
