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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
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Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
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Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Ayy ladies
They go apeshit over inequality!
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Green ladies are always the nicest
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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
1,2,3 Kick!
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!
Health care for sex workers
A quiet day at the brothel
A Bieber tattoo
Dammit, Brad! You had ONE job!
Is she choking her pussy?
What's for sale?
Not a gypsy
The cherry on top of a great collection
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
Need a ride?
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Scarlett Johansson reallllly liked getting her ear pierced
Crack that whip
The saddest nipple you'll ever see
She's so not into you
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
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Serious hat envy
The cold shoulder, literally
Not a creepy guy at all…
The Realist in the game
Blue Riders on the Storm
Art as activism
A mystery lady
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
The Ambassador Quintet
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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They go together like cat and eel
Major bro code violation
Sexism sucks
2 dope queens
Classic incest
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Can we get some privacy, please
Three faces, almost the same life
I can paint AND take photos
Don't mess with this kid
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
How times have changed...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Bless your heart
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
A little help from our friends
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
She's a Jill of all trades
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
