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At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Has a room lined with 440 pounds of beeswax
Heartless business man shows he has a heart
Collection of some bed-hopping Brits!
Tuna buys a lot of art
Beyoncé and Jay-Z spent Mother's Day here in 2016
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Good wine and interesting art
It really does look like a warehouse on the outside!
Peggy and her dogs are buried on site
Really grabbing the bull by the horns
Like beer goggles, but for rapists
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Good times at the dawn of Rome
From the myth that invented pouring beer on jerks
All About the Combines Baby
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Made in a cabin
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Burglary in a Swiss Villa
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Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Just another naked lady
Witness her
You really can get a happy meal anywhere nowadays
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
