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Made in a cabin
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No one will stand still!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Just breathe
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Photographer who thinks photography is stupid
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Sir Shameless
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Robert likes Ken
It's naht a tu-mah! It's his bicep!
Exes and nudie pics were a problem even before the internet
A crotch by any other name...
Think twice before your next wax
Waiting for the white angel
Hungry
“We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.” –RuPaul
Looking for Love
Ominous Silhouettes
Stuff Rich People Own
Tiny vulvas not tiny Volvos
Tattoo you
Nothing but net
Begging for bad karma
Upsetting
Colonel underpants
A little help from our friends
Olympia who?
The night is dark and full of terrors
Danger is her middle name
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Named after a muscle in the scrotum
Demons never looked so sexy
The bigger the hoops...
Best mom jeans
The weirdest kiss in art history
Legendary photo shoot
Not your average selfie
New art in the windy city
Cast yourself as a star!
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Bridezilla
Portrait of a penis?
Because screw your cultural norms
OUCH
Nature is awesome
BDSM much?
Who wouldn't look awkward?
Picture day
Sad and censored
Adam, Eve, and Molly
Brains and beauty
What makes her smile?
Photography, reality, and (polar) bears..oh my!
No boys allowed
Telekinesis never sounded so good
It's gonna be a full moon
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
Mamma can you hear me?
Valentine's Day in the X-Ray Machine
The Milky (chocolate) Way
Baller Jesus
Not so Plastic Pat
Bad girl kiki
Weems out
Middle fingers all around
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
Frida, the drag edition
Debi just hit the wall
That sass though
More like Louise LOLer
Too truisms
Standing guard
The Bowery, before it had a Whole Foods.
The Last Sitting
Bad dude in a tranquil moment
So about that American Dream…
Going up?
A man of mystery.
Not so great for shopping
The forgotten war
Should've left it under your mattress
When doors attack
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
The title says it all
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
The big Untitled
Cowboy take me away
Known as "the Little Magician"
Another unhappy ending
The man who made "dance 'till you drop" into an art form
Goddess of Pop
Peekaboo, I see you
Marilyn Morimura
Build me up, buttercup
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Picture perfect American naivete
But different
Pre-bullets in the neck
Heels were a bad choice
It's all an illusion
We don't know what it is, but we like it
Crazy hair, bombastic performance
Disappearing act
“Viva os catadores!"
I am Malala - with face tattoos?
But we must dress up, it’s the Renaissance Fair!
Maid with much passion...
The surface is all you've got
"Hyperreal"
Going after her friends’ poems
All booked up
Poor snek
New medium, who dis?
Carnation confrontation
I overdid it
Is this what you want?
Come and play with us
The spiritual gunshow
A violent piece of history
Curiouser and curiouser
Queen of comedy
Need a ride?
Atomic ghosts
Something here looks off
Black is beautiful
Seeing red
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Hey, Sista Sista
Basically the Matrix
Got milk?
The water's fine!
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
