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Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Bet on black
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Fangirl-ing
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Diabeetus
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
