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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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,...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
A pteropod is a pteropod is a pteropod
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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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,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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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...
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...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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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...
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(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,...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
…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...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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...
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...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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:...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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,...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
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...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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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...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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....
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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...
