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Neither sand nor tree, discuss
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
A walk on the beach
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Steel mill is his studio
Painted fairies from psychiatric prisons
Copycat extraordinaire
Let him blow ya mind
Photog to the stars
Dainty art
Cuz he’s all about that place
Nature collagist
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
That plane of sober and truthful treatment
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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Branch out
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It's gonna be a full moon
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
We exist in this space
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
No one knows just how deep it goes
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Painted at D.H. Lawrence's guest house
A monument to real estate developer's guilt
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
It's a fully formed oak tree
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Adam, Eve, and Molly
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Tread on me
Around you go
Think boats, think water, think Seattle
Over Blotchy Land and Abstract Sea
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
Goddess of Pop
Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
All in the family
“I don’t think it is the function of art to be pleasing.”
Not as peaceful as it seems
Cowboy take me away
"I am not a crook."
Peekaboo, I see you
The San Francisco blur area
Geology Rocks!
The surface is all you've got
It ain't her, but it's beautiful work
Titania sleeping, Oberon creeping
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Egyptians walk, not fly!
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
X” Marks the Spot
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Real nurses wear Crocs
Instead of a pumpkin carriage, you get TB!
California dreamin'
It's called acting
Some More Drama
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Spear me maybe?
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Careful not to look crazy!
Stiff upper lip
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Poor snek
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Remind me who that is?
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Making money with your friends
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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.
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
"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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
