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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Big Alma's pride and joy
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Some say it ruins the view
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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....
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The official residence of POTUS
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
So get ready!
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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,...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
No more fake news!
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
