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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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,...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
