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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Art on the walls and in the toilets
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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....
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
"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...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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”...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Posher than Posh and Becks
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
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...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent 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...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
