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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
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Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
People should pay more attention to their walls
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Sorry PETA
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
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Long names and titles
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Act spontaneous!
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Possible peace portrait
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
