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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Baby won’t you light my fire
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Nothin' but the nasty
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On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Stuck in the asphalt with you
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Ring around the rosie
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Literal love child
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
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...
Too truisms
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Sir Shameless
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
