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Sid and Nancy. Bobby and Whitney. Britney and Justin.
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The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
An ode to mustard ice cream
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Finally, a female gaze
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
Need a ride?
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
X” Marks the Spot
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
