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The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
The patron saint of orgasms
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Dude looks like a lady
That saucy over the shoulder look
You make me feel electric
Not not the kraken
The macho man goes soft
Everyone needs a good LBD
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Not your typical odalisque
Stay in the grid
Who needs friends when you have horses?
Why so bleu?
Not sad, just blue
Epitome of feeling blue
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Let's hope this does not go with a giant diaper
Steamrolled Smurf
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A worrisome thing
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A Horrifying History
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Hey, Sista Sista
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Get your mind outta the gutter!
Rage-inducing abstraction
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
This room drove its owner insane
A bit of a reach...
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Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Once Punched a Skeleton
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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...
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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
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...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
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In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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”...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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 the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Diabeetus
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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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...
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If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
