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Prado, not Prada
Beauty queens taking care of business
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
My heart is in Havana
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
So ugly you can’t look away
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Shoot first, ask questions later
“Viva os catadores!"
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
“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...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Step right up!
Once Punched a Skeleton
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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,...
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...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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...
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...
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
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
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...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
