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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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Stolen for the nicest reasons
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Love is a many splendored thing
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
All you need is love
Row, row, row your boat
Do you need a doctor?
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
You can still go see one of their fingers and a tongue IRL
Painting with at least 18 different titles
Family portrait time!
Not your mama's still life
Get a clue
'As she fills his dream'
Ok Cupid!
Mining doesn’t cause death
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Bringin' sexy back
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Late night liaisons
The land of breast milk and honey
Teddy Roosevelt turns out to be a harsh art critic
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Say something deep
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
