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This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
Happy wife happy life!
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Anonymous strikes again
Big-time First Lady
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
To the Earl goes the spoils
Three's company
Getting ready to jam
Fashionista
Sexy kinda
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Flashing all that bling bling
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Quit your squawking
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Not so Plastic Pat
She's a man eater
You talkin’ to me?
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
Hey, Sista Sista
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
#MILF
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Taking one for the team
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sister sister
Mo money, mo problems
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another beheading. Yawn
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
"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...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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 term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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!),...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
