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The seat of the United States Congress
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
The floor is lava
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Five museums for the price of one
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Villainous Treachery
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Gimme those pearls
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
A treasure trove of gold
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Suspicious lack of togas
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
More than just delicious desserts
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
New medium, who dis?
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s electric!
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Island in the Plains
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in 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...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
So get ready!
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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 (...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
