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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The King of a flattering angle
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
A crotch by any other name...
“Viva la Mexico”
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Made in a cabin
Tummy ache?
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Souvenirs from vacation
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
When Doves Cry
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
