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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Suit up!
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
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Six candles
Birthday of a legend
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
