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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...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Paint-ception
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
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Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Probably banged your girlfriend
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The Sun's Son's Math
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Five museums for the price of one
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
A colorful feast
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Villainous Treachery
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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:...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Gimme those pearls
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It’s all about perspective
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
What the visiting English Duke wants, the visiting English Duke gets
Sibling rivalry
All the single ladies!
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
Flavor that'll last longer than a piece of Fruit Stripe Gum
Diabeetus
Lusty ladies come to play
It runs in the family
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Suspicious lack of togas
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...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Three graces are better than one
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Graceful
Meat blender
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Singin’ in a ring
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
Watch now
Squares are people too
What filter is that?
Three faces, almost the same life
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
More than just delicious desserts
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
It’s electric!
Sigourney Weaver's problem
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Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
I'll have what she's having
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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Men react to the friendzone
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
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A long ride for a free meal
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Falling for the same gal
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Spear me maybe?
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
X” Marks the Spot
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
So get ready!
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Possible peace portrait
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
