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

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

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

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

The original vagina monologue

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Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art

(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...

That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...

Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...

Everyones favorite party monster

Veni, Vidi, Vino!

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

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

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

Has a disease named after him

Drunk in love

Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...

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

When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass

Island dumping is worse than ghosting

Historians love to diagnose him

Winos rejoice, the god of mom juice has arrived

Here's lookin' at you

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

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

Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...

Not so Virgin Mary

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

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

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

The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

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

Channeling Van Wilder in 1538

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

Compounding a bad situation

High drama, sex, and violence

More weirdness from Bosch

Did not survive "Snakes on a Plane"

The circle of life

A forgotten warrior

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

Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...

Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...

When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands

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

Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!

One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr

Para el Cambio

Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end

The new gang at McDonaldland

O Holy Knight

Suspicious lack of togas

Worst kiss ever

It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to

(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...

Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)

Gorilla warfare! Wait...

Birth of the party god

Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...

The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...

Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...

Green ladies are always the nicest

Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative

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

The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...

Cloned but not forgotten

Aim for the heart

If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting

Secret lives of gay prostitutes

1,2,3 Kick!

Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party

Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"

Babe, I’m sorry I’m late

When will my reflection show who I am inside

She's not taking a nap

“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”

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

*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...

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

This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!

Health care for sex workers

Those who can't do, paint

A quiet day at the brothel

Smart girls don't buy sight unseen

Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing

Put all your money on Death!

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

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

Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...

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

Explosive high kicks

Sexy stocking stuffers

Spot all the artist’s besties

Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Reading rainbow

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

If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...

Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...

The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum

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

We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci

"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

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

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

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

People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...

The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...

The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...

He's wicked...wicked hot

Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...

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

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

In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...

Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually

1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens

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...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7

This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...

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

Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

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

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

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

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

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

From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.

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

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

Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...

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

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

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

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

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

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...

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

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...

Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...

Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time?  ...

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

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

The monster nude at age six

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

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

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

In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....

This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...

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

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

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

At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...

This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...

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

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

Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bring your nematodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...

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

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

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

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

I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...

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

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

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

Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...

Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...

  Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

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

Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...

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

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

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

We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...

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

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

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

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

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

The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

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

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

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

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

So you think you have a crazy ex?

Don't ask him to make copies

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

Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...

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

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

Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...

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

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

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

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

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

Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...

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

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

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

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

Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie

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

Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...

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

To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...

You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...

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

Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...

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

  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...

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

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...

  What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...

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

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

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

Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...

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

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

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

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

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

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

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...

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

Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...

Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...

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

  One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...

Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli  Beginning just nine years...

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

Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...

Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...

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

It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...

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

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

In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...

We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...

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

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

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

Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...

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

Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...

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

Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...

How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...

This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...

Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...

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

Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

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

  Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...

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

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

It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...

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

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

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

The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...

Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...

Ghosts above the city

Not for the panic attack prone

Khan’t stop, won’t stop

Trespassing & Tiaras

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...

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

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

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

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

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

Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...

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

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

Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...

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

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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...

The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...

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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

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

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

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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

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

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

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

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

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

If I could turn back ti-ime!

Literally *fire*

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

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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

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

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

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

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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...

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

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

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