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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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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...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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,...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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,...
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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
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If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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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...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
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...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
