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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
"I am the century"
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Against our own self-interest
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Inmate turned art legend
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Badass quilter is not an oxymoron
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
birth control or Bible stories?
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Let it all hang out
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
A journalistic painting of WWII
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Here comes “Wonderwall”
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!
Rock the vote
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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Sit! Stay...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Not so Plastic Pat
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Considered so outrageous, it wasn't shown for decades
Not Scarface but scarchest?
A hairy art critic
Find his porno under Kirk Wolff
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Weird science
Reluctant heroine of Women's Liberation
god of the theatre
Soul of an art critic
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
So get ready!
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Examine your systemic racism
We don't need to know the way home
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Mining doesn’t cause death
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Hubba hubba
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
A picture worth a thousand words
It began with a coffee date
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Stolen, found, but not returned
They really do fart rainbows
These are not Legos
An understatement if there ever was one
Historians love to diagnose him
Follow the bwown wabbit
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Boss lady
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...
He's a little young for fetish play
Degas paints puberty
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Quit your squawking
Pay attention to the peonies
A mystery lady
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
He is a she
Politics from a portraitist
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
COTTON EYED JOE
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
