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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Suspicious lack of togas
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
Life in the commune
Made in a cabin
Cinnamon hair oil doesn’t fix battle crimes
Twenty-seven, Balling
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
The patron saint of orgasms
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Making money with your friends
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Unfinished business
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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 power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
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...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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 Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
"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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
