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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Made in a cabin
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Wearing a vest of many colors
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
Click here for love potion recipe
Avada Kedavra
Pool party
Manet could never
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Urban anxiety aplenty
Cut him off!
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
A bargain at twice the price
Three guys walk into a bar...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Careful, might make you howl!
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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...
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...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie
SmoothNess, QuickNess, NessTalgia, ArlenNess
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
