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Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
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Bless your heart
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Ambassador Quintet
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Lest we forget
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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,...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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....
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
