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His madre must have done something right
Doesn't like blood
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Lovers on the lawn
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Falling for the same gal
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Go away Apple!
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Expanded in 2016!
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
Where the 99% meets the 1%
Add medals when necessary
Infamous pubes
Creepy kids play creepy game and sing creepy song
A tale of two Majas
Leading, ailing, never failing
La Indigenista
Realistic, but not bloody
A “botched job” that gave us giant robots
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Napoleon's Spanish henchmen stopping a revolt did not go down well with Goya
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Marry museum director, place portrait in museum = success
Not my king
Should've paid the ransom!
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
That sass though
No more drinkie
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
More than just delicious desserts
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Illuminati confirmed
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Probably banged your girlfriend
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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:...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
