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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Whodunnit??
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
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Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Shades of Black
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Loves ants
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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...
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...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
