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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
growing up fast
Cowboys and Leathergirls
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Just a martyr girl gang
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
#MeToo circa 1600
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Beauty is the brains
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
So get ready!
Life in the commune
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The patron saint of orgasms
Made in a cabin
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
Waity Katie no more!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Unfinished business
Witch orgy prep
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Stiff upper lip
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
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
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
Cézanne's remix
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
