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It’s electric!
All about the Benjamins, baby
Even then it was all about the money
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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Thought Michelangelo was overrated
His assistants did most of the work
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
You make me feel electric
Another line drawn
Now you see it, now you don't
Chase the rainbow
Villainous Treachery
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
"A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”
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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Gimme those pearls
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Possible peace portrait
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Suspicious lack of togas
O say can you seeeee
Drawing class from hell
The ineffective president
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Analog life was tough
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Haunted horse
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
They're not making chili
Saint Selfie
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Your capitalism is showing
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
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So we beat on, boats against the current
Making fun of puritanical ideals
I don’t want no wants
Big empire, bigger ego
No need to fear when sleep is here
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Failure to sell
Not for acrophobes
A great painter's quest away from painting
It's gonna blow!
Jesus has had enough!
A spiritual about-face
(You Drive Me) Crazy
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Ghostwood
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
That's Master Richard to you!
Everyone has a goth phase
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Atomic ghosts
Gothic tipi?
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
He's wicked...wicked hot
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
COTTON EYED JOE
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Neither fleeing nor hanging from a dog's mouth with a broken neck
If the Rocky Horror Picture Show had full frontal nudity
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Not as peaceful as it seems
Champion for equality in scholarship
What you didn't learn about him in grade school
Feet are kind of her thing
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Hello, Darkness my old friend
It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Just some student work
Vive La Revolution!
Quit your squawking
View from inside
P-town Love
Who is she?
Blackening exercise
He is a she
Stairway to heaven
Brancusi stands out
Stairway to the future
Thunderbird meets Bear
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Coming to a tattoo near you
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Old woman, old school
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Study up!
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
X” Marks the Spot
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for commercialism
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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
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
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
“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...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Multi-use materials
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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