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Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Not allowed to be political
Going up?
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Made in a cabin
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
The long-legged elephant in the room
Wearing a vest of many colors
Just another beheading. Yawn
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
"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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
A treasure trove of sculptures
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
“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...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
