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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
An ode to mustard ice cream
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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Exactly as cool as her name sounds
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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The best from the heroes in a half shell
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If Yo-Yo Ma and Jimi Hendrix met
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Carnation confrontation
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
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He should have used my violin
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
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Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
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They go apeshit over inequality!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Finally, a female gaze
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At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...