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Not a nice girl
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Buy now on Amazon
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Only men can see this one
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Had notorious dance moves
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Hard cider is good
This room drove its owner insane
Build me up, buttercup
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
Matthew 19:21
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
She had to sit down
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Not allowed to be political
This one’s for all the haters.
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Failure to sell
Not your average portraiture
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Half peacock Half man
A bit of a reach...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
From portraitist to executioner?
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
A burn too sick for the ER
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The penis is v. important in this one
These women rock
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
"Talent is cheap"
Born into a lucky time
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
He loved his mommy
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Careful, might make you howl!
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
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
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
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
So get ready!
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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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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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
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We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
