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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
A hairy art critic
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
"I am the century"
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
So get ready!
Let it all hang out
Buy now on Amazon
Sit! Stay...
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Considered so outrageous, it wasn't shown for decades
Not Scarface but scarchest?
Find his porno under Kirk Wolff
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Weird science
Reluctant heroine of Women's Liberation
god of the theatre
Soul of an art critic
Hubba hubba
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
A picture worth a thousand words
It began with a coffee date
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Boss lady
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Politics from a portraitist
Against our own self-interest
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Satyr? I hardly know her!
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Napoleon did not like it
The land of breast milk and honey
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Literal love child
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Treasures around every corner
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
A great painter's quest away from painting
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
He is a she
Too school for cool
paint me like one of your founding fathers
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Criticizing the critics
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
When Doves Cry
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
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...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Man of many hats
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Say that name five times fast.
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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
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
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
