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David gets sassy
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Openly gay, nasty personality, but untouchable because the Medicis loved him
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Hold still...
Innovation
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
A true Romantic
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Isle of Man coin
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
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...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
A Case of John Henryism
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Carravagio having a bad head day
Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Ribbit, ribbit
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
"Puny Eunie"
She hated Frida Kahlo
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
T for Tony
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Can't get more LA than this
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Puff, puff, pass
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
Rich people in the '60s
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
So get ready!
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
Sister sister
From portraitist to executioner?
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...