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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It's only natural
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Oh say can you see
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Hippest place in Brighton
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Bringing the inside out
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Made in a cabin
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Considerable collections
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
