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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Careful, might make you howl!
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Possible peace portrait
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
