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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Singin’ in a ring
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
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A gift to the Nation
Aye laddy...
Come and say g'day
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Named after a beer maker
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
In the Athens of Australia
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
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Great Scott!
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
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Was the Medici's office building
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Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
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The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Saved by a princess
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
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Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
The perils of flirting on a boat
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Hey big spender
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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Fancy birthday presents
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
X” Marks the Spot
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
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Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Protecting Catholicism since 1609
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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Careful, might make you howl!
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
