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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Finally, a female gaze
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Great Scott!
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
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Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
