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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Chart toppers
Like a booger come to life!
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Understatement of the century
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Baby won’t you light my fire
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Nothin' but the nasty
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Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
Stuck in the asphalt with you
Not as mystical as it seems
Finally, a female gaze
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
Ring around the rosie
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What lucky intern got to assemble these?
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Literal love child
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
Too truisms
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Viewer discretion advised
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
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Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Sir Shameless
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
So get ready!
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
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It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
