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Collection of some bed-hopping Brits!
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It really does look like a warehouse on the outside!
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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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.
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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...
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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...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
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Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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