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David gets sassy
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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...
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
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...
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...
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...
Hold still...
Innovation
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
A true Romantic
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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...
Isle of Man coin
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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.
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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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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,...
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...
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
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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...
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
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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...
Tummy ache?
Take that Uncle Sam!
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
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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
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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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...
Gothic tipi?
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)