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Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Paint-ception
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Sun's Son's Math
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Five museums for the price of one
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
A colorful feast
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Villainous Treachery
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It’s all about perspective
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Gimme those pearls
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
What the visiting English Duke wants, the visiting English Duke gets
Sibling rivalry
All the single ladies!
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
Flavor that'll last longer than a piece of Fruit Stripe Gum
Diabeetus
Lusty ladies come to play
It runs in the family
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Suspicious lack of togas
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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
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
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
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...
Three graces are better than one
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Graceful
Meat blender
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
Watch now
Squares are people too
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
What filter is that?
Three faces, almost the same life
Singin’ in a ring
More than just delicious desserts
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
Sigourney Weaver's problem
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
It’s electric!
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
I'll have what she's having
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Spear me maybe?
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
