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Cubist paintings: the original Magic Eye posters
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Part artist, part comrade
A good man in a messed up world
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Rich girl gets bitten by the communist bug
I just want to be poor!
My horse needs more henna!
The Revolution will have shapes
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
God save the Queen!
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Those who can't do, paint
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Too little too late!
Designing for the Soviet Woman
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Once Punched a Skeleton
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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.
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...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
