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Cowboys and Leathergirls
May be the home of a mysterious monster
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
growing up fast
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
Waity Katie no more!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A very weird rock
Protection money being handed over; the Pope who pays gets to watch
Seven shades of black
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Just a martyr girl gang
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
What’s more alarming: an avalanche or climate change?
It says “nude,” right?
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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#MeToo circa 1600
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Alexander's not so well
Beauty is the brains
Stiff upper lip
Mi concubine es su concubine!
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Once Punched a Skeleton
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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 new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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...
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...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
