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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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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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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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,...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
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