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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
I do my hair toss, check my nails
Cruel prank on vain people
Side Eye Like You’ve Never Seen
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
A walk on the beach
Magic mirror on the wall
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
When will my reflection show who I am inside
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Robert Smithson
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Experience infinity in one minute
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Remind me who that is?
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Making money with your friends
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
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...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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,...
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”...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Obsessed with calligraphy
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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...
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...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in 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,...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
