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The seat of the United States Congress
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
The floor is lava
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Five museums for the price of one
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
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...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Buy now on Amazon
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Villainous Treachery
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
A treasure trove of gold
Made in a cabin
Gimme those pearls
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wearing a vest of many colors
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Suspicious lack of togas
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
More than just delicious desserts
New medium, who dis?
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
It’s electric!
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Island in the Plains
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
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...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
So get ready!
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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
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...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
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...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
