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You wish you could be this cool
Early morning, emotional promise
Home (not so) sweet home
A mama's girl
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Not an itsy bitsy spider
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Conga line from hell
Portrait of a penis?
More like Louise LOLer
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Before they hated each other's guts
Stuff Rich People Own
One high-class whore
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
So get ready!
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Swirly girly
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
…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...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
