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Two great minds meet
Superfan, partner, sole heir, biographer
Didn't want to live in America anyway
The patriarchy loves what it cannot have
At-ten-tion!
Painted maidens, cherubs, and lion carcasses
These women rock
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Freaky Faces
Still I rise
Sister sister
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Royally good propaganda
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
"Femme aux Fagots" in French
Playing dress up
The cold shoulder, literally
Dead Lion's Society
Real recognize real
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Problematic, but in a nice way
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Botany babe
Victorian-era badass
There is a dead guy in this picture
The soul-destroying Victorian Era strikes again
Bow down
Mo money, mo problems
When Doves Cry
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
I’m blue, da ba dee da ba di
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Exactly the white kind of person
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Workin’ 9 to 5
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
TGIF
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Little known American heroine
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
She's a Jill of all trades
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sicker than your average grandma
Horse on a treadmill
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Pie is a breakfast food
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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....
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Swiss Miss
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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
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
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
