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Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
A tad temperamental
The man, the myth, the legend
Meme-tastic
STELLLLAAAA!!
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Jewish camouflage expert
"Of Derby" is not an acceptable last name.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Ambitious and driven or greedy?
Not just a one trick pony
A little date-rapey for our taste
Keep out
She's so not into you
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Do not jump in this leaf pile
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
A better title: "widow and orphan"
Neither fleeing nor hanging from a dog's mouth with a broken neck
He really, really likes rabbits ok?
Suit up!
All about the Benjamins, baby
god of the theatre
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Snoozefest
New York state of mind
He's seen some stuff
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
Women and children first
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Not a good day to be a bird
Build a bridge and get over it
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Can’t touch this
It's gonna blow!
America’s playground
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
An innocent red dot
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Bueller? ... Bueller? ...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Picked a dangerous medium for someone so unlucky.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Born to watch paint dry
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Not a nature guy
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Once Punched a Skeleton
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“Art is swindle.”
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
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...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Sea = Dancer
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Painter of fashionable life
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Painter with a green brush
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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...
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...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
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...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
