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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Tie the devil to a pillow
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Possible peace portrait
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
