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Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The family that circuses together stays together
Made in a cabin
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Kahlo family Christmas card
Everybody squeeze in
It’s all (ancient) Greek to me
Wearing a vest of many colors
You really can get a happy meal anywhere nowadays
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Paint me in too, old buddy
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
All in the family
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...
When Doves Cry
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
"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,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
“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...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun 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...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
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...
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...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
*** 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...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
