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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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Dost thou knowest this place?
Patriotic blues in America
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
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
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
So you want to be a Cubist?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
