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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Gothic tipi?
Not in India
Colonial adjustments
Behind every great guy...
Jesus got jaundice
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Something here looks off
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Good portrait of a bad idea
When worlds collide
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Cinnamon hair oil doesn’t fix battle crimes
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
Rage-inducing abstraction
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Once Punched a Skeleton
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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...
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...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...