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Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
So get ready!
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Who run the world? Girls!
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Down, boy
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
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The fight over our genitals rages on
Drum roll!
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Interesting way to start an empire
Real Housewives of Algiers
Witch orgy prep
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Fly like an eagle
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Flip it and reverse it
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
We want the Funk
The past is female
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Spot all the artist’s besties
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Pre-bullets in the neck
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
