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Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Made in a cabin
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Varicose veins. They'll happen to you, too!
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Ambassador Quintet
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Filmic Fabric of a People
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
It's ok to be king
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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.
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Bless your heart
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
