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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Suspicious lack of togas
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
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Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Life in the commune
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Not allowed to be political
Cinnamon hair oil doesn’t fix battle crimes
Going up?
Twenty-seven, Balling
The patron saint of orgasms
Made in a cabin
Making money with your friends
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Unfinished business
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
A treasure trove of sculptures
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
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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.
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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...
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...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
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...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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,...
