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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Flora and Flattery
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Made in a cabin
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Wearing a vest of many colors
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Sorry PETA
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
