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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Bless your heart
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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....
“He’s a good kid”
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
That other pandemic
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
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...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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...
The Ambassador Quintet
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
