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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Chores are torture I tells ya...torture!!
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Put a bag over their head, it'll be fine
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Interracial dating meets intolerance
Lusty ladies come to play
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Halibut smile
Young, dumb and in love
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Female gaze pioneer
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
So get ready!
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
