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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
From billboards to pop art was an easy transition...
Los Angeles legend, master of the evocative cityscapen
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
Degas meets Rob Zombie
My dagguero-type of guy
Bringing Black bodies to the forefront
Yes We Ashcan
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
He loved his mommy
A wandering painter
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Buy now on Amazon
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Painter of fashionable life
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Torture in dungeon 5
Summertime, and the livin' is eaaasy
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Bird's eye view
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
The Phantom of the Opera: Vol. II
Carnival cruelty
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Pictures of You
Remind me who that is?
What's for sale?
James, time to clean your room...
Agent...
Oysters and vaginas, big difference
It's tourist season
“An interesting bird…”
Daddy of the constitution
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you know, you know, you know?
The Mad Masker
The new gang at McDonaldland
Come sail away
No white picket fences here
Move over, Judith!
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Skeletons are people too, ya know
Proust's frenemy
Honoring Healy
We exist in this space
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Let's talk about housing
Seven shades of black
Not your average garden party
Sadly, still relevant
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
She had to sit down
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Calling folks out
11th president of the USA
The perils of flirting on a boat
Balling with Garfield
LL, is that you?
The bachelor president
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Anyone have a nail file?
Feasting feathered friends
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Failure to sell
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
A spiritual about-face
I’ll never understand humans
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
This room drove its owner insane
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Half peacock Half man
A bit of a reach...
Watch now
If ya can't sell it, break it
Shades of Black
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Man of many hats
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Out in the Renaissance while still in the closet
I’m not Pop, you are.
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
