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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Former industrial site; looks better now
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
One of our favorites in DC
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Wade through the cosmic muck
Taking crochet to a new extreme
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Tuna buys a lot of art
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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Artwork and dairy farm together
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
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If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Safe haven for when the big one hits
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
David gets sassy
Hold still...
What the visiting English Duke wants, the visiting English Duke gets
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
Old faced baby Jesus
Tribute to a nymphomaniac
But is it art?
Napoleon did not like it
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PYT was actually about Bubbles the Chimp
Rub her right breast for good luck
Muse has Rodin by the junk
Low-fat art
Timberrrr!
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Keep out
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Like Mavericks, but safer
America: 2, Europe: 0
Falsely accused
More accurate title: mistress begs husband to leave horrid wife
Seems super dangerous
A political statement
"There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture."
Dumpster diving goes upscale
Tread on me
Around you go
Think boats, think water, think Seattle
“I don’t think it is the function of art to be pleasing.”
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Pray the air conditioning holds out
Almost destroyed by one sick puppy
Ginsu knife commercial?
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Let's hope this baby stays decapitated
Think of a sexual act involving something wet and furry
Full of red tape and self-sabotage
A Chauvinist Chaise?
Killing me Softly
Da nun...da nun...danun danun danunnn
Shot through the heart
Not for climbing
In the food court we trust
Chores are torture I tells ya...torture!!
Recycled tears
If Yo-Yo Ma and Jimi Hendrix met
I hear you
Crime story
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
Sometimes size does matter
Deemed 'revolting, pornographic, and blasphemous' by the LA Board of Supervisors
Based on personal observation
One high-class hog
They call me mellow yellow
Be seated
We have an idea for a new iPhone case
You're gunna get cut
Proving since 1965 that drugs can make anything fun!
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
Crackpot
Napoleon's sister was a naughty girl
Cloned but not forgotten
Pushing Sisyphus' boulder by Jacob's well
Let's hope this does not go with a giant diaper
Scott the X-man or Sir Isaac Newton?
Hold on to your unit!
Never-ending list of fans!
Stuck in the asphalt with you
Nahalal translates to Nahalal (Don't say we never taught ya nothin')
Pray there's not an earthquake
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Makes your Spidey Sense tingle...but not in a good way
All the single ladies!
Makes for dangerous seating
Little bronze people in agony
AK-47s are in for Spring
Nigeria, spirited away
Mayday!
Or do worry, I'm a sign, not a cop
She's beauty and she's grace, she's Miss. United States! JUST KIDDING
Just taking a nap
99 bottle(caps) of beer on the wall
Big Alma celebrates a "win" (Filipinos may see it differently)
A sweet moment between a mother and child
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Cruella O'Keeffe
Its hip to be square (or rectangular)
This one makes us misty eyed
Rag lady
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Chop, chop, chop
Is he a genius or is he just ruining perfectly good vases?
Joanna and Abigail in the sky with diamonds
She's got feet (and tits) of clay
No use crying over spilt milk...unless that milk is ice cream
Look at art a little longer
He's a brick house
You could call it a butt crack
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
Like a booger come to life!
Just breathe
thump-thump thump-thump
Our computer cords are choking us, cutting off oxygen to the brain!
You really can get a happy meal anywhere nowadays
A two for one deal
Johnny Cash's favorite artwork
Does it make you randy baby?
Some say it ruins the view
POOF it's gone
His teeth and ambitions are bared
He probably wishes he wasn't a real boy now
Virgins don't age, duh
Party time! Excellent!
Ships ahoy!
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Banned for being too awesome
Thrift store art
A copy of a copy of a copy
Art on a deadline
Vintage illumination for all your best photo ops
Pretty bird
Not to be confused with Pegasus
Or five women, one unicorn.
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
The Precarious Sun of the MIA
The Bean
Don’t eat it please.
Reading rainbow
This one’s for all the haters.
He's bad
Look, ma! No hands!
Fashion hunny
Harsher on racists than Trump
Bigger is better
Hold it!
A hot mess
WTF
Wall-E?
Neither sand nor tree, discuss
To infinity and beyond!
Tasty!
A clean sweep for David Ireland
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
A Horse is a horse of course
Conga line from hell
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
Greatest antiques roadshow find
Obsessed with death
An ode to mustard ice cream
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Did not survive "Snakes on a Plane"
What is this? A circus for ants?!
Are we interrupting something?
Designed by a sculptor, built by a slave
Like you, when you're cranky
Make art not war
Stop living in the past, man
A wall won't work
Hubba hubba
The patron saint of orgasms
Look into America and America looks back
A+ escape plan
So many bodily fluids
Because Prince Charming doesn’t exist
Shipping included
The awkward stencil
From the myth that invented pouring beer on jerks
Most Egg-cellent
Mammogram or mistake?
A Case of John Henryism
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
One arch to-go
Around the dinner table, the conversation is lively
Suit up!
Sicker than your average muse...literally
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
Poor Albert
How the cellular found the Cellar
Roses not guns
It's ok to be king
Huge fan of hump day
Do not jump in this leaf pile
Cheep Cheep
Cruel prank on vain people
Robert Smithson
Hillary Clinton saw it and said #relatable
Boobs held high
The Illuminati did it
Not a great father son moment
The name Graves is just too appropriate
Where did the time go?
'Til the sweat drips down my...
It's heavier than it looks
Playboy mogul meets Mister Rogers
And his real nose!
Science meets art meets racism
You are what you eat
Had notorious dance moves
Pronounced colored vah-ses
Work of hot air
A look within the soul
Bay Area uptown funk
Hiawatha, but make it classical
Put that in and smoke it
How many different ways can you say "monkey"
How many Nefertitis is too many Nefertitis?
Geology Rocks!
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
God save the Queen!
From one museum to another
Float like a butterfly
The eagle that played hot potato
Drum roll!
Reinventing the wheel
As easy as A, B, C
The original gal pal
Astrologically incorrect
Flavin knows how to work smarter, not harder.
Drunk on the job
A full-on naked cast
All sales are final
It's a fully formed oak tree
Abuse of power comes as no surprise…
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Not your average mummy
The presidential bristles
Going out in style
Went into hiding for a while
Her Christian root work
Priceless Transatlantic Trash
For one BIG garden
Grate expectations
Origami doughnut
Early morning, emotional promise
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
A wild sculpture in a traditional location
Big empire, bigger ego
The big mystery
La Indigenista
Confronting the past
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
A bloody family affair
A real O.G.
Probably cursed
I can’t believe it’s not butter
These women rock
A dictator’s go-to gift
Women sculpting women
Genocide, but make it fashion
Home (not so) sweet home
Down, boy
Hulk smash...keys
Here for a good time, not a long time
Fly like an eagle
Are we human, or are we marble?
The only good reason to join a cult
Advertise your god-complex
Body is a wonderland
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Debaucherous Spirit
Veni, Vidi, Vino!
This dude is hot!
These serpents made hiss-tory
A tale of two testicles?
At the bottom of the sea
Don't spill the beans
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
