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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
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Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
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Avada Kedavra
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Urban anxiety aplenty
Cut him off!
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
A bargain at twice the price
Three guys walk into a bar...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Careful, might make you howl!
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
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Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie
SmoothNess, QuickNess, NessTalgia, ArlenNess
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
