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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Botticelli grows old and violent
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Finally, a female gaze
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Anyone bring any napkins?
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
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Need a ride?
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It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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