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Patriotic blues in America
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
So you want to be a Cubist?
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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....
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...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
(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.
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...
…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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
