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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Prado, not Prada
Beauty queens taking care of business
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
My heart is in Havana
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
So ugly you can’t look away
Wearing a vest of many colors
Shoot first, ask questions later
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
“Viva os catadores!"
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
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....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Step right up!
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
