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The floor is lava
The seat of the United States Congress
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
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....
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...
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Ambassador Quintet
A treasure trove of gold
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
New medium, who dis?
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Island in the Plains
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
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...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
