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The seat of the United States Congress
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What lucky intern got to assemble these?
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The floor is lava
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Can you spot the fakes?
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
A treasure trove of gold
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The land of breast milk and honey
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Made in a cabin
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Wearing a vest of many colors
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
New medium, who dis?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Island in the Plains
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
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
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
