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What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
The floor is lava
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Can you spot the fakes?
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A treasure trove of gold
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The land of breast milk and honey
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Made in a cabin
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Wearing a vest of many colors
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
New medium, who dis?
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Island in the Plains
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
