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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Big Alma's pride and joy
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Fancy birthday presents
Some say it ruins the view
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
"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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The official residence of POTUS
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
So get ready!
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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,...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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,...
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
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
No more fake news!
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
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...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
(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 Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
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...
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...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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...
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...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
