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More accurate title: mistress begs husband to leave horrid wife
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
