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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Put that in and smoke it
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Should've left it under your mattress
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Should we do as they say, not as they do?
Playtime in the bath
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Mostly a library with fancy books that dabbles in art
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...