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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When you can’t pick a paint swatch
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Sorry PETA
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...