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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Concrete Jungle
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Everybody dance now
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His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
Those have got to be implants
If you're ugly just move around faster
You're never going to find Waldo
Not not animal abuse
Theme-park farmers
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
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Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party
Ring around the rosie
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Take the easy way out and make some money
Sounds like salami
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
1,2,3 Kick!
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
A Horrifying History
Distilling days of ritual
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
An innocent red dot
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
A little help from our friends
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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,...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
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...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
