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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Baby won’t you light my fire
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Nothin' but the nasty
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Made in a cabin
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Stuck in the asphalt with you
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Ring around the rosie
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*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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Literal love child
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
A little help from our friends
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Too truisms
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
