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As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Nature collagist
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Bad mommy
Geology Rocks!
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
God save the Queen!
Gimme those pearls
If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
You can't ignore it
Now that's a resting bitch face
My muse is a medieval rampart
Viagra was the duke's only wish
She's pretty... too pretty
Romantic load of crap
The past is female
Bow down
Just another naked lady
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Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
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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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
