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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Love is a many splendored thing
An ode to mustard ice cream
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Stolen for the nicest reasons
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Don't look at me!
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
All you need is love
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Finally, a female gaze
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Painting with at least 18 different titles
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Not your mama's still life
Get a clue
'As she fills his dream'
Ok Cupid!
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Bringin' sexy back
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Late night liaisons
The land of breast milk and honey