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Good times at the dawn of Rome
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Interesting way to start an empire
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Really grabbing the bull by the horns
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Who run the world? Girls!
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Like beer goggles, but for rapists
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
From the myth that invented pouring beer on jerks
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Or five women, one unicorn.
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Real Housewives of Algiers
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Flip it and reverse it
We want the Funk
The past is female
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Spot all the artist’s besties
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
X” Marks the Spot
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
