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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Bless your heart
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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...
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
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...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Fort Worth a trip
Former tobacco plantation
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
O say can you see
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Ambassador Quintet
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Latin LACMA
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The past is female
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Gothic tipi?
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pre-bullets in the neck
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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...
