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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Not for acrophobes
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
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...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
That way it’s rent-free
Everyone has a goth phase
When you need to practice painting dead people
Carravagio having a bad head day
Up in smoke!
Let's hope this baby stays decapitated
Begging for bad karma
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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...
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
The sweetest Judith of them all
A political statement
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
Never underestimate the women
Murder, but make it fashion
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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:...
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...
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Cleanly decapitation
Problematic, but in a nice way
How's the air up there?
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Haunted horse
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Girl next door
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Just another beheading. Yawn
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Buffalo Bill's Back Fat
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
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...
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...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
