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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Black is King
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Cooler than cool
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
James, time to clean your room...
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Welcome to my crib
Damn, I look good
Who needs shirts?
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Making fun of puritanical ideals
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a studio boat!
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Can't get more LA than this
No days off
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....
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
“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...
Mi concubine es su concubine!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
A treasure trove of sculptures
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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,...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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,...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
