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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Not a one trick pony
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Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Flowers are heavy
Friends with all the superstars
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Reflecting on a revolution
Bad beezy
Rocking the five-head
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A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
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Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Sexy Spaniard, missing bones
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Banned for a while
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Fits 423 hospital beds
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
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Wearing a vest of many colors
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Velázquez inceptioned this painting
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Wrapped in red
It’s getting hot in Seville
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Anything for the king
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Habsburgs on the Hunt
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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.
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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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...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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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...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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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...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Probably banged your girlfriend
