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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
More cushion...
Teacher of artists
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
You betta werk!
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Abstract-ish
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
Women can’t be jockeys
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
A true Romantic
Gay, kinky, happy to stir controversy, brilliant, died of AIDS
A whole lot of lovin'
Master of Flémalle, expert at the oils, expatriated for sleeping with girls
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
Volcanoes, pirates and cannibals, oh my!
Minimal man
OG Abstract Expressionist
Loved columns
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Had a good head on his shoulder named Sonia
Making a statement
The Inventor of the Snapshot
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Think twice before your next wax
How's the air up there?
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
If you had only one hand where would you put it?
University of California professor who died of cancer, possibly caused by chemicals used in his art
A monumental talent
First internationally acclaimed African American artist
It starts with a single line
You've got a friend in me
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Deemed 'revolting, pornographic, and blasphemous' by the LA Board of Supervisors
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
One of many Pietas
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Finally, a female gaze
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Tiny vulvas not tiny Volvos
Back in the manger
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Lots of action here
#BlackArtMatters
The other Starry Night
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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David gets sassy
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
War photographer who hated war
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Sorry PETA
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Deep, dark humor
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
When it rains it pours
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
If you don't have a canvas, use your bed
All About the Combines Baby
Pregnancy test from On High
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Ruffled feathers
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
A Case of John Henryism
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Dumpster diving goes upscale
All you need is love
He's a brick house
Semi-Homemade paintings
Across the Universe on paper
Bay Area uptown funk
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Bring a hankie
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Carravagio having a bad head day
