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Politics as usu-al
Blurring lines in the Bay
A singular achievement
Competing with Mother Nature
Home of art's most famous orgasm
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Beaucoup Bones
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Fight the flab
Women sculpting women
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Amsterdam gothic
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Wade through the cosmic muck
She's pretty... too pretty
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Illuminati confirmed
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...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
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...
Swiss Miss
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
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...
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
The big cheese
Horse on a treadmill
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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...
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...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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...
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...
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,...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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”...
