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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
From billboards to pop art was an easy transition...
Los Angeles legend, master of the evocative cityscapen
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
Degas meets Rob Zombie
My dagguero-type of guy
Bringing Black bodies to the forefront
Yes We Ashcan
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
He loved his mommy
A wandering painter
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Painter of fashionable life
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Torture in dungeon 5
Summertime, and the livin' is eaaasy
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Bird's eye view
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
The Phantom of the Opera: Vol. II
Carnival cruelty
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Pictures of You
Remind me who that is?
What's for sale?
James, time to clean your room...
Agent...
Oysters and vaginas, big difference
It's tourist season
“An interesting bird…”
Daddy of the constitution
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you know, you know, you know?
The Mad Masker
The new gang at McDonaldland
Come sail away
No white picket fences here
Move over, Judith!
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Skeletons are people too, ya know
Proust's frenemy
Honoring Healy
We exist in this space
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Let's talk about housing
Seven shades of black
Not your average garden party
Sadly, still relevant
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
She had to sit down
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Calling folks out
11th president of the USA
The perils of flirting on a boat
Balling with Garfield
LL, is that you?
The bachelor president
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Anyone have a nail file?
Feasting feathered friends
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Failure to sell
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
A spiritual about-face
I’ll never understand humans
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
This room drove its owner insane
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Half peacock Half man
A bit of a reach...
Watch now
If ya can't sell it, break it
Shades of Black
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
"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...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Man of many hats
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Out in the Renaissance while still in the closet
I’m not Pop, you are.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Once Punched a Skeleton
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
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,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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...
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
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,...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
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...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...