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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Makin' its way downtown
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
So get ready!
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Or five women, one unicorn.
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Good times at the dawn of Rome
Interesting way to start an empire
Real Housewives of Algiers
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Witch orgy prep
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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In the middle of a hottie sandwich
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Flip it and reverse it
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
We want the Funk
The past is female
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Spot all the artist’s besties
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Pre-bullets in the neck
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
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(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
