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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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Chart toppers
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
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Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
A true Romantic
Insane in the membrane
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
David gets sassy
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
Buy now on The Met Store
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A Case of John Henryism
Carravagio having a bad head day
Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Ribbit, ribbit
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
"Puny Eunie"
She hated Frida Kahlo
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
T for Tony
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Can't get more LA than this
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Puff, puff, pass
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
Rich people in the '60s
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Hey big spender
Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
Sister sister
From portraitist to executioner?
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
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Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Gothic tipi?
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
So get ready!
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
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He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
