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Time to break out your magnifying glass
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Dutch nicknames are bizarre
A techy tower
Phallus of France
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!
Like a sale at your local mall...in Hell.
Tie the devil to a pillow
Really expensive calendar
omg a wedding in a barn, that's so on trend
It's Saul in utter chaos
Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party
A teacher's nightmare
When he ugly but he Jesus
Gallery within a gallery
Just another naked lady
Witness her
2 spoopy 4 me
An ophthalmologist's favorite painting
Wholesome theft
Mmmm...peacock
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Two of each
Paint me in too, old buddy
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...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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:...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In dad's shadow
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
"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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
