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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We dont need no education
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“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...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
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...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Once Punched a Skeleton
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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,...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
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...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
