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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Six candles
Birthday of a legend
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
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Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Finally, a female gaze
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
