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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Singin’ in a ring
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
A gift to the Nation
Aye laddy...
Come and say g'day
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
In the Athens of Australia
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Great Scott!
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Was the Medici's office building
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Saved by a princess
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Modern Indian masters
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Used to be a palace, v. chic
The perils of flirting on a boat
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Hey big spender
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Fancy birthday presents
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
X” Marks the Spot
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
