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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
growing up fast
Cowboys and Leathergirls
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Just a martyr girl gang
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
#MeToo circa 1600
Beauty is the brains
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
So get ready!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Life in the commune
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The patron saint of orgasms
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
Waity Katie no more!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Witch orgy prep
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Unfinished business
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Stiff upper lip
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
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:...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
Cézanne's remix
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
