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The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Too cool for New Zealand
The floor is lava
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The debate rages on
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Red is the coldest color
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
A treasure trove of gold
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
We want the Funk
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
New medium, who dis?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Pre-bullets in the neck
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Island in the Plains
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
