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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's almost like you're there
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Remix!
Just what is going on here?
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Whodunnit??
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Local good guys
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Mining doesn’t cause death
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
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Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Shades of Black
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Obsessed with calligraphy
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
