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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
One high-class whore
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“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...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
