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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
An ode to mustard ice cream
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Stolen for the nicest reasons
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Don't look at me!
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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:...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
All you need is love
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Finally, a female gaze
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Painting with at least 18 different titles
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Not your mama's still life
Get a clue
'As she fills his dream'
Ok Cupid!
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Where have we seen this lady before?
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Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Late night liaisons
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
Need a ride?
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Teddy Roosevelt turns out to be a harsh art critic
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
X” Marks the Spot
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
A little help from our friends
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...