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With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Home of art's most famous orgasm
That 1970s vibe
Glass half full kinda gal
An ode to mustard ice cream
America, hell yeah!
Hypochondriac, loved prostitutes and women generally, tolerated male patrons only for their money
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Started as an acrobat!
An artist so uncontroversial, even his portrait is in black and white.
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
A literal hellscape
Beaucoup Bones
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Hard drinking, homophobic, thought museum curators were pansies
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Why wear gym shorts?
No homo!
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
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The creepy old guy is Benton being honest about being a creepy old guy
Good times
Token of a troubled bromance
Bad prez
Designed by a sculptor, built by a slave
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Not sad, just blue
Sir Talks-a-lot
Tribute to a Dutch painter
Paradise but dramatic
His passion...
He had an eye for music (and nudity...)
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
The doctor is in
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Downton Abbey lookin' mofo
Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
Cinderelly Cinderelly
Benton's ode to the life he never had
Black Girl Magic
A classic conversation piece
Playing dress up
The face of romance
Real recognize real
Pimp my wagon
He left the cat for last
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Bringin' sexy back
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Nature, space travel, blocks-- it’s got everything
Row, row, row your boat
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Troublemaker!
Painting the patron
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
“No one will even see it…”
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
So get ready!
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
He got very Close
Precocious
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
