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Baby won’t you light my fire
Nothin' but the nasty
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Stuck in the asphalt with you
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Ring around the rosie
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Literal love child
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Too truisms
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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....
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Sir Shameless
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
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Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
