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Criticizing the critics
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
An atheist makes a chapel where you’re NOT allowed to pray
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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...
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...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
