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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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The past is female
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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Made in a cabin
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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You can't ignore it
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Criticizing the critics
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Whodunnit??
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
A little help from our friends
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Shades of Black
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Obsessed with calligraphy
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
