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Token of a troubled bromance
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
That 1970s vibe
Glass half full kinda gal
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
America, hell yeah!
Hypochondriac, loved prostitutes and women generally, tolerated male patrons only for their money
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Started as an acrobat!
An artist so uncontroversial, even his portrait is in black and white.
Hard drinking, homophobic, thought museum curators were pansies
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With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Wearing a vest of many colors
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Half a babe is still a babe in our book
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Why wear gym shorts?
No homo!
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
The creepy old guy is Benton being honest about being a creepy old guy
Good times
Bad prez
Designed by a sculptor, built by a slave
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Not sad, just blue
Sir Talks-a-lot
Tribute to a Dutch painter
Paradise but dramatic
His passion...
He had an eye for music (and nudity...)
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
The doctor is in
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Downton Abbey lookin' mofo
Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
Cinderelly Cinderelly
Benton's ode to the life he never had
Black Girl Magic
A classic conversation piece
Playing dress up
The face of romance
Real recognize real
Pimp my wagon
He left the cat for last
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Bringin' sexy back
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Nature, space travel, blocks-- it’s got everything
Row, row, row your boat
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
Hey, Sista Sista
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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:...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Troublemaker!
Painting the patron
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
“No one will even see it…”
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
"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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
So get ready!
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,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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....
He got very Close
Precocious
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
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...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
“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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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,...
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...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
