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Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Horse on a treadmill
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
A burn too sick for the ER
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Lange is holding a camera! Really!
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
An obvious wrong
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Waiting for the white angel
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Hungry
That sass though
Made in a cabin
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Ain't that a kick?
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Are you sure that’s all you’re selling?
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Only men can see this one
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Who is she?
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Live easels
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From portraitist to executioner?
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The penis is v. important in this one
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“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...
There's no one quite like her
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Born into a lucky time
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Careful, might make you howl!
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Say my name, say my name
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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....
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...
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
