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Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
At the bottom of the sea
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Stuck at home again
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
A little help from our friends
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Concrete Jungle
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Made in a cabin
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Urban anxiety aplenty
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Need a ride?
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
An innocent red dot
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
She's a Jill of all trades
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
