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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Child's play
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Chores are torture I tells ya...torture!!
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
So get ready!
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
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Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
