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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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An ode to mustard ice cream
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
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With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Women can’t be jockeys
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bacon paints meat
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
"Liberated" from Mr. Siemens
Finally, a female gaze
"Revolution 9" b-side
Body is a wonderland
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
You can't ignore it
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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Stuck at home again
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
