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The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The floor is lava
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
A lighthearted children's game of togetherness and violence
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
He's a little young for fetish play
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Buy now on Amazon
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Based on personal observation
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
Secretary of Badassery
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Made in a cabin
A treasure trove of gold
Six candles
Wearing a vest of many colors
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
New medium, who dis?
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Island in the Plains
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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....
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
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...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
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.
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
