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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...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Former tobacco plantation
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Hallelujah!
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The Latin LACMA
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Botticelli grows old and violent
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Not allowed to be political
Check it out, bro!
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Anyone bring any napkins?
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Witness her
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
Three guys walk into a bar...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
O say can you see
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Everyone has a goth phase
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The past is female
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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Gothic tipi?
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
