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Paint me like one of your fruit baskets
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
Art of decay
The flaming allegory
To every thing there is a season
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Arcimboldo humiliates a coworker
Don't judge a book by the cover...or face
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Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!...and Fascism!
Naked children provoke strong reactions
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Isle of Man coin
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Butts, butts, butts, butts
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End of Days Dudes
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Atomic ghosts
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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...
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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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
