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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
Wearing a vest of many colors
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Treasures around every corner
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Buy now on Amazon
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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:...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
Too school for cool
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Criticizing the critics
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up 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...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
When Doves Cry
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
So get ready!
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Man of many hats
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Say that name five times fast.
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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.
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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...
