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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Just another naked lady
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Buy now on Amazon
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
God save the Queen!
Gimme those pearls
Made in a cabin
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If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
Wearing a vest of many colors
Everybody loves a celebration!
What was he on, and where can we get some?
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Not so great for shopping
Urban angst
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Now that's a resting bitch face
My muse is a medieval rampart
Bad weather, good painting
That sass though
Urban anxiety aplenty
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Witness her
Viagra was the duke's only wish
She's pretty... too pretty
Romantic load of crap
Bow down
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
"Hyperreal"
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
A little help from our friends
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
