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The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Too cool for New Zealand
The floor is lava
Buy now on Amazon
The debate rages on
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Red is the coldest color
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The land of breast milk and honey
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Made in a cabin
A treasure trove of gold
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Wearing a vest of many colors
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
We want the Funk
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
New medium, who dis?
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pre-bullets in the neck
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Island in the Plains
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
