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Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
The long-legged elephant in the room
Just another beheading. Yawn
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
"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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
A treasure trove of sculptures
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
