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Gem of scenic Scotland
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
They took down the piper, but he came back
Unchanged since 1918
It's good to be the king
Art of decay
The Pope's house
Home (not so) sweet home
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Build a bridge and get over it
Nature is awesome
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Some say it ruins the view
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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:...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Countryside home of a multi-chinned archbishop
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Russian Ark
Was the Medici's office building
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
