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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Women can’t be jockeys
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Bacon paints meat
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
"Liberated" from Mr. Siemens
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Body is a wonderland
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Finally, a female gaze
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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Stuck at home again
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
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Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
X” Marks the Spot
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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Disappearing act
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
