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One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Add medals when necessary
Infamous pubes
Creepy kids play creepy game and sing creepy song
A tale of two Majas
Leading, ailing, never failing
A “botched job” that gave us giant robots
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
No more drinkie
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
His madre must have done something right
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Doesn't like blood
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...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Lovers on the lawn
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Watch now
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Go away Apple!
Illuminati confirmed
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Expanded in 2016!
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
A sweet moment between a mother and child
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Where the 99% meets the 1%
La Indigenista
Realistic, but not bloody
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Whodunnit??
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Should've paid the ransom!
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
That sass though
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
More than just delicious desserts
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
Obsessed with calligraphy
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Loves ants
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Yea, that's his real name
Great beard, better art
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
