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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Suspicious lack of togas
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
Life in the commune
Not allowed to be political
Cinnamon hair oil doesn’t fix battle crimes
Going up?
Twenty-seven, Balling
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
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Making money with your friends
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Unfinished business
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I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
A treasure trove of sculptures
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
The floor is lava
Holy Toledo, Batman!
The seat of the United States Congress
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Beaucoup Bones
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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,...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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:...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
