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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Once Punched a Skeleton
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
