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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Two German friends lost amid a slaughter
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Down, boy
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
So get ready!
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Matthew 19:21
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The fight over our genitals rages on
Late Bloomers Rejoice
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Fly like an eagle
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
These women rock
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
"Talent is cheap"
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
