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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Once a girl scout, always a girl scout
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Bouncin' off the ceiling
Put a bag over their head, it'll be fine
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Named after a coded slave song
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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Not just a pretty face, actually a research scientist
Interracial dating meets intolerance
Lusty ladies come to play
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
But where are the unicorns?
Halibut smile
Young, dumb and in love
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Down in the valley, the valley so low. Hang your head over, hear the wind blow
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
How times have changed...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
