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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Photographer who thinks photography is stupid
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Once Punched a Skeleton
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Robert likes Ken
It's naht a tu-mah! It's his bicep!
Exes and nudie pics were a problem even before the internet
A crotch by any other name...
Think twice before your next wax
Waiting for the white angel
Hungry
“We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.” –RuPaul
Looking for Love
Ominous Silhouettes
Stuff Rich People Own
Tiny vulvas not tiny Volvos
Tattoo you
Nothing but net
Begging for bad karma
Upsetting
Colonel underpants
A little help from our friends
Olympia who?
The night is dark and full of terrors
Danger is her middle name
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Named after a muscle in the scrotum
Demons never looked so sexy
The bigger the hoops...
Best mom jeans
The weirdest kiss in art history
Legendary photo shoot
Not your average selfie
New art in the windy city
Cast yourself as a star!
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Bridezilla
Portrait of a penis?
Because screw your cultural norms
OUCH
Nature is awesome
BDSM much?
Who wouldn't look awkward?
Picture day
Sad and censored
Adam, Eve, and Molly
Brains and beauty
What makes her smile?
Photography, reality, and (polar) bears..oh my!
No boys allowed
Telekinesis never sounded so good
It's gonna be a full moon
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
Mamma can you hear me?
Valentine's Day in the X-Ray Machine
The Milky (chocolate) Way
Baller Jesus
Not so Plastic Pat
Bad girl kiki
Weems out
Middle fingers all around
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
Frida, the drag edition
Debi just hit the wall
That sass though
More like Louise LOLer
Too truisms
Standing guard
The Bowery, before it had a Whole Foods.
The Last Sitting
Bad dude in a tranquil moment
So about that American Dream…
Going up?
A man of mystery.
Not so great for shopping
The forgotten war
Should've left it under your mattress
When doors attack
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
The title says it all
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
The big Untitled
Cowboy take me away
Known as "the Little Magician"
Another unhappy ending
The man who made "dance 'till you drop" into an art form
Goddess of Pop
Peekaboo, I see you
Marilyn Morimura
Build me up, buttercup
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Picture perfect American naivete
But different
Pre-bullets in the neck
Heels were a bad choice
It's all an illusion
Made in a cabin
We don't know what it is, but we like it
Crazy hair, bombastic performance
Disappearing act
“Viva os catadores!"
I am Malala - with face tattoos?
But we must dress up, it’s the Renaissance Fair!
Maid with much passion...
The surface is all you've got
"Hyperreal"
Going after her friends’ poems
All booked up
Poor snek
New medium, who dis?
Carnation confrontation
I overdid it
Is this what you want?
Come and play with us
The spiritual gunshow
A violent piece of history
Curiouser and curiouser
Queen of comedy
Need a ride?
Atomic ghosts
Something here looks off
Black is beautiful
Seeing red
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Hey, Sista Sista
Basically the Matrix
Got milk?
The water's fine!
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sir Shameless
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Maybe don't clean your plate
Have you seen my parents?
I’m blue, da ba dee da ba di
So this is why they call them blueprints
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Took pix of misfits
Photog to the stars
But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Married Georgia O'Keeffe and took lots of nude pictures of her
Confronting the darker side
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
It’s not blurry, it’s artistic
Should've used a horse and buggy instead
The poster child for ADHD
Was accused of selling child pornography
Will the real Cindy Sherman please stand up?
Cowboys and Leathergirls
A succesful groupie
Death's photographer
Asks the camera, why?
Young wild and free
Shot male nudes that scandalized early 20th century Seattle
Original madman
Ed, Edwin, n Eddie
Never learned that patience is a virtue
Bondage, anyone?
My dagguero-type of guy
Not a nice girl
A nice Canadian guy
Monochrome is out! Color is in!
Nature gal
Pinch me
Slow your roll
Pioneered a colorful life
The original Instagrammer
Paradise in pictures
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
War photographer who hated war
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
…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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Lange is holding a camera! Really!
Big ladies
Recluse pioneer
Birth of the cool part two
Redefining images of Muslim women
Revealed humanity in the most imposing of public figures
The art world's Mary Poppins
On par with the best of 'em
The Photocentric Cynic
Only the good die young
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Cowboy boots, Stetson, and a bolo tie
Cookie, Fortune
Botany babe
The art of war
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Ghosts above the city
Making money with your friends
"A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”
Trespassing & Tiaras
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
The power girl of modern art
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Gay, kinky, happy to stir controversy, brilliant, died of AIDS
The ultimate cool beat chick
Proved you actually can polish a turd
That 1970s vibe
Had great gossip
So. Cool.
Show her your beach bod
Accidental comedian
American fantasies
Only different spectacles
Not one but many selves
Late bloomer
One Who Is Talented
Art as political protest
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Her genital puns are not gentle
Brother nature
Vomits rainbows
Held her own
Cutting racial commentary
First internationally acclaimed African American artist
You say you want a revolution
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
Where's that dam photo?
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
It's the insides that count
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Glamourous...
Rebel with a cause
Expat
He went west
Always on the Lookout for Technological Invention and Innovation in Film.
Does a surprisingly good Mona Lisa impression
Queen of appropriation
Well, what do you do with your leftovers?
Exciting and scaring museums globally
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Not Juan
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Competing with Mother Nature
A man of many media
Chillin with Vincent
It starts with a single line
The Inventor of the Snapshot
Changing the world, one photo at a time
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Promoter, businessman, married a porn star more famous than him
Better than your kid
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Just another feminist from New Jersey
Copycat extraordinaire
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Nothing like your grandma
Not a pretender
Works that body
Political radical with a cute mustache
Rising star
Not a sports guy
The VR star
She knows what she wants
Not a feel-good kind of guy
Breaks stuff; calls it art
Museum as canvas
