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The floor is lava
The seat of the United States Congress
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A treasure trove of gold
Made in a cabin
The Ambassador Quintet
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
New medium, who dis?
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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....
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Island in the Plains
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
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.
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
