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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Probably banged your girlfriend
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
Paint-ception
The one that got away
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Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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Squares are people too
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Who needs shirts?
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Singin’ in a ring
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
X” Marks the Spot
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Posher than Posh and Becks
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
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(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
