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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Down, boy
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It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The fight over our genitals rages on
Drum roll!
Witch orgy prep
Fly like an eagle
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
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An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
