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She sells seashells by the sea shore
You go, Rococo
Born from some bloody balls
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Dali had lots of desires, some of them liquid
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Baby Herc nips the nip
Baby before the Baptist
Don't mess with women or wild boars
A Venus by any other name is a prostitute
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Every woman's dream: be married to the god of jewelry
Dead boyfriend? No problem.
Cupid, you are being gross
Erotic...in a disturbing way
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Crime story
Napoleon's sister was a naughty girl
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Venus and Cupid experiment with golden showers
Side chicks got it made
The most malicious cherub you'll ever meet
Baby, she was born this way
Context is everything
Satyr? I hardly know her!
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Eat first, sex later
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Cupid's a latchkey kid
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Another painting of Venus on break
Look, ma! No hands!
Not Average Hotel Art
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
The land of breast milk and honey
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Literal love child
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
