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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
You light up my life
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Just breathe
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Made in a cabin
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Wearing a vest of many colors
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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,...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
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:...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
