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birth control or Bible stories?
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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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July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
