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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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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...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
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Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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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...
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
