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Baby won’t you light my fire
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Nothin' but the nasty
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Stuck in the asphalt with you
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Ring around the rosie
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Literal love child
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
Too truisms
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Once Punched a Skeleton
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
