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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
They grow up so fast
Ladies first!
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What's yours is mine
You think you know, but you have no idea.
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
I like big butts and I cannot lie
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Careful, might make you howl!
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
You're gunna get cut
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
What makes her smile?
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Think twice before your next wax
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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...
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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
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...
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(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
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...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
