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New art in the windy city
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Build me up, buttercup
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Playing dress up
Little Miss Cat Pic
Watch now
Claustrophobics beware
Wholesome
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
LL, is that you?
Ghosts above the city
Buy now on Amazon
All booked up
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The sweetest of portraits
Monument to a bromance
Painting and donors both make a big splash
Let me sit on your shoulders
Not for climbing
Makes your Spidey Sense tingle...but not in a good way
Feet are kind of her thing
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
An MS Paint kinda day
So many bodily fluids
Semi-Homemade paintings
This little piggy went to the market...the stock market that is
Get your hands dirty
Not your average mummy
The longer you look…
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Trespassing & Tiaras
You're gunna get cut
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Skelly head
Tasty!
Mamma can you hear me?
Weems out
Debi just hit the wall
The awkward stencil
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
We're not sure what's happening here
Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Fancy birthday presents
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
When doors attack
Blobby woman parts galore
A pretty freeway
Move over, Judith!
Good alternative to stargazing
The big Untitled
From one museum to another
What are you, chicken?
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
The fight over our genitals rages on
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
OUCH
No boys allowed
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
You da man Glenn Ligon
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Rodney King's zeitgeist
words of a griffin
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We don't need to know the way home
Too truisms
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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
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
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
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
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
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The power girl of modern art
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Multi-use materials
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
