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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
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Chart toppers
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Like a booger come to life!
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Understatement of the century
Baby won’t you light my fire
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Nothin' but the nasty
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Babies babies babies babies rocking everywhere
Stuck in the asphalt with you
Not as mystical as it seems
Finally, a female gaze
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
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What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
You can't ignore it
Ring around the rosie
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Literal love child
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
Too truisms
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How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Sir Shameless
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
