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Too cool for New Zealand
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Margaret Thatcher called him "that man who paints those dreadful pictures"
Brothel artist
Red is the coldest color
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Sorry PETA
Behold, the contents of your nightmares
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Bacon paints meat
Christian nightmares
Epitome of feeling blue
A real O.G.
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Meat blender
Star-spangled liar
Slumped from stigmata
Making money via faith.
What filter is that?
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
We want the Funk
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Pre-bullets in the neck
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
BFF's til the end
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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...
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,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Once Punched a Skeleton
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
