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Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
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Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
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“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
We exist in this space
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
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Picture day
Calling all cynical pessimists!
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Ayy ladies
They go apeshit over inequality!
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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He's wicked...wicked hot
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
A Bieber tattoo
Dammit, Brad! You had ONE job!
Is she choking her pussy?
What's for sale?
Not a gypsy
The cherry on top of a great collection
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Scarlett Johansson reallllly liked getting her ear pierced
Crack that whip
The saddest nipple you'll ever see
She's so not into you
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
When your make-up artist at Sephora is secretly an expressionist
Serious hat envy
The cold shoulder, literally
Not a creepy guy at all…
The Realist in the game
Blue Riders on the Storm
Art as activism
A mystery lady
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
They go together like cat and eel
Major bro code violation
Sexism sucks
2 dope queens
Classic incest
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Can we get some privacy, please
Three faces, almost the same life
I can paint AND take photos
Don't mess with this kid
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
How times have changed...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
