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Baby won’t you light my fire
Nothin' but the nasty
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Stuck in the asphalt with you
Made in a cabin
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Ring around the rosie
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
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...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Literal love child
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Too truisms
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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,...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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 film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
