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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
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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...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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...
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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...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
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Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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...
Women can’t be jockeys
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
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...
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...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
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It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
How's the air up there?
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Bacon paints meat
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Finally, a female gaze
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
"Liberated" from Mr. Siemens
"Revolution 9" b-side
Body is a wonderland
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
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Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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...
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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...
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...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
At the bottom of the sea
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
