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Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Life in the commune
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Unfinished business
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Shoot first, ask questions later
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
