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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Sexy kitten
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Infamous pubes
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Buy now on Amazon
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
His madre must have done something right
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Doesn't like blood
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Me-ow
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Lovers on the lawn
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Go away Apple!
Concrete Jungle
Careful, might make you howl!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
Expanded in 2016!
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Big (Sugar) Momma's House
Love or hate?
It takes a woman to give nudes true personality
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
Just some student work
City living
Buy now on The Met Store
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
He left the cat for last
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
The German George Carlin
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
They go together like cat and eel
That darn cat
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
If the Rocky Horror Picture Show had full frontal nudity
10 points if you can see a boob
Two women who don't want to talk to you
It says “nude,” right?
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Where the 99% meets the 1%
Add medals when necessary
Creepy kids play creepy game and sing creepy song
A tale of two Majas
Leading, ailing, never failing
La Indigenista
Realistic, but not bloody
A “botched job” that gave us giant robots
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Napoleon's Spanish henchmen stopping a revolt did not go down well with Goya
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Marry museum director, place portrait in museum = success
Not my king
Should've paid the ransom!
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The monster nude at age six
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
That sass though
No more drinkie
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
An innocent red dot
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
More than just delicious desserts
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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A little help from our friends
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Illuminati confirmed
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Party like it's 1665
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
