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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Cutting racial commentary
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Time to snatch yo wigs
Standing guard
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Singin’ in a ring
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
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
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
X” Marks the Spot
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
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(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
