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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Little bronze people in agony
"There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture."
The King is in the house
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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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...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
