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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
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...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
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Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
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Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
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...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
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“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
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It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
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Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
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The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...