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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Sexy kitten
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Infamous pubes
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Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
His madre must have done something right
Doesn't like blood
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Me-ow
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Lovers on the lawn
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Concrete Jungle
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Go away Apple!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
Careful, might make you howl!
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Big (Sugar) Momma's House
Love or hate?
It takes a woman to give nudes true personality
Just some student work
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Expanded in 2016!
Buy now on The Met Store
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
He left the cat for last
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
The German George Carlin
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
They go together like cat and eel
That darn cat
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
If the Rocky Horror Picture Show had full frontal nudity
10 points if you can see a boob
Two women who don't want to talk to you
It says “nude,” right?
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Where the 99% meets the 1%
Add medals when necessary
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
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The monster nude at age six
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Napoleon's Spanish henchmen stopping a revolt did not go down well with Goya
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
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
An innocent red dot
That sass though
No more drinkie
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
More than just delicious desserts
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
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Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Illuminati confirmed
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Party like it's 1665
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
The artist's favorite colleague
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
