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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
