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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Ocean's 11 it was not
"A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”
Give them to us raw and wriggling
"Fish are friends, not food"
Multi-use materials
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Nigeria, spirited away
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters 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...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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