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Neither sand nor tree, discuss
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The oldest of the four Tate siblings
Big, very, very big. Huge
More like LiverCOOL
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Buy now on Amazon
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
A walk on the beach
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Steel mill is his studio
Painted fairies from psychiatric prisons
Copycat extraordinaire
Let him blow ya mind
Photog to the stars
Dainty art
Cuz he’s all about that place
Nature collagist
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
That plane of sober and truthful treatment
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Smoking something?
Branch out
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
We exist in this space
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
It's gonna be a full moon
No one knows just how deep it goes
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Painted at D.H. Lawrence's guest house
A monument to real estate developer's guilt
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
It's a fully formed oak tree
Adam, Eve, and Molly
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Tread on me
Around you go
Think boats, think water, think Seattle
Over Blotchy Land and Abstract Sea
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
Goddess of Pop
Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
“I don’t think it is the function of art to be pleasing.”
Not as peaceful as it seems
Cowboy take me away
"I am not a crook."
Peekaboo, I see you
The San Francisco blur area
Geology Rocks!
The surface is all you've got
It ain't her, but it's beautiful work
Titania sleeping, Oberon creeping
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
All in the family
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Egyptians walk, not fly!
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
X” Marks the Spot
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Real nurses wear Crocs
Instead of a pumpkin carriage, you get TB!
California dreamin'
It's called acting
Some More Drama
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Spear me maybe?
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Careful not to look crazy!
Stiff upper lip
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It's naht a tu-mah! It's his bicep!
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Poor snek
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Remind me who that is?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Making money with your friends
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
