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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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That 1970s vibe
Glass half full kinda gal
America, hell yeah!
Hypochondriac, loved prostitutes and women generally, tolerated male patrons only for their money
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Started as an acrobat!
An artist so uncontroversial, even his portrait is in black and white.
birth control or Bible stories?
Hard drinking, homophobic, thought museum curators were pansies
Head's up
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Plop a teabag in your mug
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…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Half a babe is still a babe in our book
Beauty is the brains
Why wear gym shorts?
No homo!
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The creepy old guy is Benton being honest about being a creepy old guy
Good times
Token of a troubled bromance
Bad prez
Designed by a sculptor, built by a slave
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Not sad, just blue
Sir Talks-a-lot
Tribute to a Dutch painter
Paradise but dramatic
His passion...
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A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
The doctor is in
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Downton Abbey lookin' mofo
Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
Cinderelly Cinderelly
Benton's ode to the life he never had
Black Girl Magic
A classic conversation piece
Playing dress up
The face of romance
Real recognize real
Pimp my wagon
He left the cat for last
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Bringin' sexy back
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Nature, space travel, blocks-- it’s got everything
Row, row, row your boat
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
Hey, Sista Sista
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Troublemaker!
Painting the patron
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
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“No one will even see it…”
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
So get ready!
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
He got very Close
Precocious
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
