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Politics as usu-al
Blurring lines in the Bay
A singular achievement
Competing with Mother Nature
Home of art's most famous orgasm
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Beaucoup Bones
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Fight the flab
Women sculpting women
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Made in a cabin
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Amsterdam gothic
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Wade through the cosmic muck
She's pretty... too pretty
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Illuminati confirmed
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Swiss Miss
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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....
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
The big cheese
Horse on a treadmill
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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...
