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We don't need to know the way home
Not for the panic attack prone
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
The fight over our genitals rages on
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
New art in the windy city
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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We are family
Held her own
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Claustrophobics beware
Not to be confused with Pegasus
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Where my girls at?
Ghosts above the city
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
All booked up
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
The sweetest of portraits
Monument to a bromance
Painting and donors both make a big splash
Let me sit on your shoulders
Not for climbing
Makes your Spidey Sense tingle...but not in a good way
Feet are kind of her thing
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
An MS Paint kinda day
So many bodily fluids
Semi-Homemade paintings
This little piggy went to the market...the stock market that is
Get your hands dirty
Not your average mummy
The longer you look…
Most Egg-cellent
Trespassing & Tiaras
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
You're gunna get cut
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Skelly head
Tasty!
Mamma can you hear me?
Weems out
Debi just hit the wall
The awkward stencil
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
We're not sure what's happening here
Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Fancy birthday presents
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
When doors attack
Blobby woman parts galore
A pretty freeway
Move over, Judith!
Good alternative to stargazing
The big Untitled
From one museum to another
What are you, chicken?
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
OUCH
No boys allowed
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
You da man Glenn Ligon
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Rodney King's zeitgeist
words of a griffin
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Too truisms
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
So get ready!
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
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
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
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
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
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
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The power girl of modern art
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Multi-use materials
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
