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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Not a feel-good kind of guy
A feast for the senses
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One depressing miscommunication
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Row, row, row your boat
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
You can still go see one of their fingers and a tongue IRL
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Two German friends lost amid a slaughter
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Family portrait time!
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
That's my jam
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....
“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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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,...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
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...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
