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Art on the walls and in the toilets
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Do what you're good at
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
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Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Why the long face?
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
Angel of Assassination
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Tummy ache?
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
From portraitist to executioner?
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Painter of fashionable life
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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,...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...