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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Not a feel-good kind of guy
A feast for the senses
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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One depressing miscommunication
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Row, row, row your boat
Do you need a doctor?
Made in a cabin
You can still go see one of their fingers and a tongue IRL
Two German friends lost amid a slaughter
Wearing a vest of many colors
Family portrait time!
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
That's my jam
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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.
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
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...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
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...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
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...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
