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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The one that got away
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Revolution will have shapes
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Not recommended as an anniversary gift
The Call of the Wild
His passion...
Idyllic villas, an escape
A trunk text from an ex
Like the Parthenon, but with pollution
City living
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Move over, Judith!
He left the cat for last
Sources say it was cold there
Everybody squeeze in
The original grime artist
Taste the rainbow
Up in flames
Boy drowns; no one cares
Porn for the Powder-Wigged
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Girl crush
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The hills are alive
The evolution of infatuation
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Don't ask him to make copies
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Vacation home art
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Sir Shameless
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
