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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
…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...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Criticizing the critics
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sorry PETA
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Planting seeds
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
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...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth 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...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
