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Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Very gay, but not happy. His dad and the pope beat him with a stick
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Buy now on Amazon
Buy now on Taschen
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
A true Romantic
Virgins don't age, duh
Veni, Vidi, Vino!
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Old faced baby Jesus
Would you like a wall to go with that ceiling?
Do you even lift bro?
Chill out, Joseph
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Matthew 19:21
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Mammogram or mistake?
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Beware of the thieving gypsies
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
David gets sassy
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Buy now on The Met Store
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A Case of John Henryism
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Carravagio having a bad head day
Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Ribbit, ribbit
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
"Puny Eunie"
She hated Frida Kahlo
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
T for Tony
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Can't get more LA than this
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Puff, puff, pass
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
Rich people in the '60s
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Hey big spender
Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
Sister sister
From portraitist to executioner?
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Gothic tipi?
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Convicted murderer, drunk, deemed "foul and rotten", but protected by wealthy patrons
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
So get ready!
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
