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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...
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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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
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
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
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....
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...
Just another naked lady
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
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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...
"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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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...
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...
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...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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...
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Once Punched a Skeleton
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
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...
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-...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
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...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
*** 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...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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.
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...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
