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What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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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...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
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,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
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...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
