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A two-faced painting
Just keeps getting bigger
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...
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You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Abstract-ish
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Ring of fire
Cannibalism central
Nasty storm
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
"Wish you were here!"
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Something seems a bit off…
It's gonna blow!
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
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...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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 Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
