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Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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The family that circuses together stays together
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Kahlo family Christmas card
Everybody squeeze in
It’s all (ancient) Greek to me
You really can get a happy meal anywhere nowadays
Paint me in too, old buddy
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
All in the family
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
When Doves Cry
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In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
“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...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
