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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
To gaze or not to gaze?
One wild and sexy lady
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Under the big tent
Not your typical odalisque
The forbidden male nude
It takes a woman to give nudes true personality
Umbrella collector
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Buy now on Amazon
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
A colorful feast
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
It’s all about perspective
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Paint-ception
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Jarring obsession
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I'll have what she's having
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Freaky families
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Spear me maybe?
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
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
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
