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Inspired by a cheese plate
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Lest we forget
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Neverending Memorial
Harsher on racists than Trump
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Some say it ruins the view
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
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....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Commemorating the Holocaust
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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,...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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...
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...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
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...
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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
