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The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Too cool for New Zealand
The floor is lava
The debate rages on
Buy now on Amazon
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Red is the coldest color
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The land of breast milk and honey
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Made in a cabin
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
It’s exactly what it sounds like
A treasure trove of gold
Wearing a vest of many colors
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
We want the Funk
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
New medium, who dis?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Island in the Plains
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Pre-bullets in the neck
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
