Sartle requires JavaScript to be enabled in order for you to enjoy its full functionality and user-experience.You can find info on how to enable JavaScript for your browser here.
The seat of the United States Congress
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The floor is lava
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Buy now on Amazon
The land of breast milk and honey
Can you spot the fakes?
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Based on personal observation
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
Secretary of Badassery
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
A treasure trove of gold
Six candles
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
New medium, who dis?
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Island in the Plains
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
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...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
