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A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum

Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...

May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...

We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer

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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

Stolen for the nicest reasons

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

  Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...

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We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...

Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...

  The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...

Mmmm...peacock

A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster

We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...

You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...

Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...

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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

All you need is love

The plural of sphinx is sphinges

Little Miss Cat Pic

Act spontaneous!

Old McCubism had a farm

  Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...

Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...

Heels were a bad choice

But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...

Dance, ballerina, dance

More than a circus act

Painting with at least 18 different titles

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Not your mama's still life

Get a clue

'As she fills his dream'

Ok Cupid!

San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...

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Where have we seen this lady before?

Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti

Victorians complain, no one’s surprised

Late night liaisons

The land of breast milk and honey

Teddy Roosevelt turns out to be a harsh art critic

The Ambassador Quintet

Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...

Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...

There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...

July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...

You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...

To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....

Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday.  Romantic folk, like my roommate...

February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...

Rococ-oh myyyyy!   It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...

Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...

If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...

Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...

This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...

First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...

It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...

I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...

Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...

Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...

Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...

When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...

  At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...

“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...

Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...

What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...

Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...

Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

  This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...

In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...

No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...

I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...

If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...

This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...

RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...

Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.

Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...

Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...

…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.

Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...

Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...

It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...

Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...

Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...

There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...

If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....

Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...

As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...

Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager   Can you even...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...

The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...

Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...

  Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...

  Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....

Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

An art bromance or something more?   Land art celebrity and hippie...

This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...

Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...

If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....

If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...

Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...

  Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

  The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...

The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...

  Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...

Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...

Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...

Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...

A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...

There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...

March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...

We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...

Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...

As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...

This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...

Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...

PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!!  Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...

  Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...

Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...

As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...

Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like...    The Chichu...

Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...

Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...

If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...

We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...

Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...

Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...

Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...

SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...

SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...

We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...

Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...

We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...

This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

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

Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...

The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...

Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl?  Karl the FOG, that...

Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...

Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...

Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...

Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...

This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...

The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

  As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...

With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...

  If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...

The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...

Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...

Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...

Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...

Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...

You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...

Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...

The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...

Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...

Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

(Source: Aniplex)   In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...

On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...

Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...

Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

Ghosts above the city

Not for the panic attack prone

Khan’t stop, won’t stop

Trespassing & Tiaras

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...

In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

  Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...

Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...

Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...

In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...

Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...

One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...

Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...

sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...

And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...

In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...

Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..

Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...

  Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...

It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...

We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...

All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...

*** 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...

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...

If I could turn back ti-ime!

Literally *fire*

One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...

In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”

As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...

It's St. Patrick's Day!  And while we all may be Irish today, these...

  It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...

It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...

Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...

Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...

  Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...

Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...

  Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...

If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...

Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...

Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...

Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...

This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...

President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...

“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...

What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...

This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...

Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...

Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...

The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...

It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...

Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw   It's an old Greek word shot into...

To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...

Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...

Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...

Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...

Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...

Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...

Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

  It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...

Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...

The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...

Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.

American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...

No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...

Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...

Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie?  We...

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!  It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...

Hear ye, hear ye:  “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...

My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...

  San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...

Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...

So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...

Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...

But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...

It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...

scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...

At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...

Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...

  “An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...

Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...

Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...

While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...

T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....

We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...

Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...

If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...

Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...

We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...

Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...

Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...

As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...

You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...

Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...

Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

Fashion Alert!  Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...

Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...

The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...

Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...

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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).

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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci

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This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...

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Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...

We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...

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Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...

Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...

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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...

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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...

French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...

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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...

Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...

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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...

Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...

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  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93.  Modern Audiences and Comic...

Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...

  Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...

In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

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