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Unchanged since 1918
Gem of scenic Scotland
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
They took down the piper, but he came back
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
It's good to be the king
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
The Pope's house
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Home (not so) sweet home
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Build a bridge and get over it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Some say it ruins the view
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
Need a ride?
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
A little help from our friends
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
She's a Jill of all trades
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Countryside home of a multi-chinned archbishop
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Mostly a library with fancy books that dabbles in art
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Russian Ark
Was the Medici's office building
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Sir Shameless
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
