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A crotch by any other name...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wade through the cosmic muck
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Taking crochet to a new extreme
Wearing a vest of many colors
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Tuna buys a lot of art
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Artwork and dairy farm together
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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.
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
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...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
