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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday.  Romantic folk, like my roommate...

There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...

Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...

At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...

You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...

Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...

So get ready!

  Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...

Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...

From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.

I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...

There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...

Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...

The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...

Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...

To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

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  It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...

Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...

Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...

It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...

Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.

To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...

  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!  It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...

It's St. Patrick's Day!  And while we all may be Irish today, these...

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Body is a wonderland

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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...

  Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...

Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...

Picture perfect American naivete

Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...

Witch orgy prep

Souvenirs from vacation

Bad weather, good painting

“I've been everywhere, man...”

Footloose in French Polynesia

I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution

Second track in PBtheE's seasons album

Pre-bullets in the neck

Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...

As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...

Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...

Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

A painter's lost dream on antiquity

Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...

…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…

Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...

In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...

On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...

Rococ-oh myyyyy!   It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...

The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...

Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...

Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...

Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...

Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...

The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...

Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...

Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...

You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...

This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...

March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...

Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...

You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...

Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...

Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...

It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...

Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...

  Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...

  Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...

The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...

Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

  Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...

Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...

You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...

  The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...

Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...

This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.

No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...

This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...

Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...

French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like...    The Chichu...

Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time?  ...

We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...

Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...

Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...

You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...

Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by  Bronzino at the  Uffizi...

  America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...

In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...

  The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...

Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...

The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...

Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...

Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...

February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik

Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...

Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...

What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...

Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...

So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...

The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...

We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...

Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93.  Modern Audiences and Comic...

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

  Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....

But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...

The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...

The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...

There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...

Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...

Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art

(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...

Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...

If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...

Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...

If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...

In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...

This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...

  Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...

It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...

Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...

All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...

Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...

I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...

If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....

Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...

In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

  Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...

Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...

Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...

Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...

A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster

But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...

This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...

  What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...

We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...

We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails 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...

Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...

MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...

2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...

Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...

Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...

This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...

What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...

Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...

Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

  Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...

Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...

Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...

The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...

Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...

Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...

Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...

We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...

Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit)   The...

We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...

Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...

Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...

This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...

sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...

PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!!  Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...

  One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...

Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...

Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...

A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...

On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...

In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...

Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...

Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...

“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...

How do you like your museums?  I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...

If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...

No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...

Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...

Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...

Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...

(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...

July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...

That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...

You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....

Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...

You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....

Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...

One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...

Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...

Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...

Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

  As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...

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...

In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...

The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...

Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...

Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...

…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

  “An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...

If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...

Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...

We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...

As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...

It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...

American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...

Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...

San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...

Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...

What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...

It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...

Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...

Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...

The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

  Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...

Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...

It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...

Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...

Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...

*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...

The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...

All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...

Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico

The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...

If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...

  Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...

After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...

We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...

Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...

Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...

Fashion Alert!  Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...

She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..

It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...

Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...

Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...

With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...

It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...

When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...

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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...

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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...

John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...

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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...

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T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...

The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

  Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...

Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...

Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.

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Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...

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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...

You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...

This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...

I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...

So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...

Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...

Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

Careful, might make you howl!

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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...

Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...

An art bromance or something more?   Land art celebrity and hippie...

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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...

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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*

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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...

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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci

This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...

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If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...

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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay

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This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...

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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born.  Empress of couture Elsa...

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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...

Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...

I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...

With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...

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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...

This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...

This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...

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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...

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Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl?  Karl the FOG, that...

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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...

One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...

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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...

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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...

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