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Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
She hated Frida Kahlo
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
Can't get more LA than this
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Rich people in the '60s
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
A true Romantic
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Should copycats make millions?
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
So get ready!
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Made more money than Monet
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
David gets sassy
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
Its hip to be square (or rectangular)
Buy now on The Met Store
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
A Case of John Henryism
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Carravagio having a bad head day
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Ribbit, ribbit
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
"Puny Eunie"
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
T for Tony
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Puff, puff, pass
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Hey big spender
Sister sister
From portraitist to executioner?
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Gothic tipi?
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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 ...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
