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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Criticizing the critics
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sorry PETA
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Planting seeds
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
"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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
