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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Joanna and Abigail in the sky with diamonds
Phew, that was close.
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Eye of the beholder
Not for acrophobes
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
A-Hunting We Will Go
Everyone has a goth phase
Secret homework
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
