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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Oh say can you see
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Emasculates the German government
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
