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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Died young in Ibiza
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
King Charles III was a big fan
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Total math nerd
Refused to be knighted
Sexy Spaniard, missing bones
Buy now on Amazon
Not a one trick pony
Fits 423 hospital beds
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Not for during rush hour
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Making collages before it was cool
Wearing a vest of many colors
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Perks of being a tax collector
I’ll have what she’s having!
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Velázquez inceptioned this painting
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Flowers are heavy
Wrapped in red
It’s getting hot in Seville
Friends with all the superstars
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The monster nude at age six
The Baroque Era was not kind to the overweight
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Anything for the king
Reflecting on a revolution
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Fashion forward dog and mistress
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Bad beezy
Rocking the five-head
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Habsburgs on the Hunt
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Banned for a while
If at first you don’t succeed...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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....
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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,...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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....
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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 Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
