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Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
So get ready!
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Who run the world? Girls!
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Down, boy
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Or five women, one unicorn.
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The fight over our genitals rages on
Good times at the dawn of Rome
Interesting way to start an empire
Real Housewives of Algiers
Witch orgy prep
Drum roll!
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Fly like an eagle
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Flip it and reverse it
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
We want the Funk
The past is female
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Spot all the artist’s besties
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Pre-bullets in the neck
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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 Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
