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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Made in a cabin
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Fort Worth a trip
Former tobacco plantation
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Wearing a vest of many colors
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Buy now on Amazon
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
O say can you see
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Latin LACMA
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
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...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The past is female
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Gothic tipi?
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Pre-bullets in the neck
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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,...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
