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It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Named after a coded slave song
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Bouncin' off the ceiling
Interracial dating meets intolerance
Lusty ladies come to play
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Halibut smile
Young, dumb and in love
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
How times have changed...
Down in the valley, the valley so low. Hang your head over, hear the wind blow
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
