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Now you see it, now you don't
Chase the rainbow
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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Drawing class from hell
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
They're not making chili
Saint Selfie
It’s electric!
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Neither fleeing nor hanging from a dog's mouth with a broken neck
If the Rocky Horror Picture Show had full frontal nudity
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Not as peaceful as it seems
Champion for equality in scholarship
What you didn't learn about him in grade school
Feet are kind of her thing
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Hello, Darkness my old friend
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Just some student work
Vive La Revolution!
Quit your squawking
View from inside
P-town Love
Who is she?
Blackening exercise
He is a she
Stairway to heaven
Brancusi stands out
Stairway to the future
Thunderbird meets Bear
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Coming to a tattoo near you
Haunted horse
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Old woman, old school
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Study up!
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for commercialism
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
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...
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
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
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...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
