Sartle requires JavaScript to be enabled in order for you to enjoy its full functionality and user-experience.You can find info on how to enable JavaScript for your browser here.
We don't need to know the way home
Not for the panic attack prone
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
The fight over our genitals rages on
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
New art in the windy city
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Buy now on Amazon
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
We are family
Held her own
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Think you're having a bad hair day?
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Watch now
Claustrophobics beware
Not to be confused with Pegasus
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Where my girls at?
Or do worry, I'm a sign, not a cop
Because Prince Charming doesn’t exist
Ghosts above the city
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
All booked up
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
The sweetest of portraits
Monument to a bromance
Most Egg-cellent
Painting and donors both make a big splash
Let me sit on your shoulders
Not for climbing
Makes your Spidey Sense tingle...but not in a good way
Feet are kind of her thing
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
An MS Paint kinda day
So many bodily fluids
Semi-Homemade paintings
This little piggy went to the market...the stock market that is
Get your hands dirty
Not your average mummy
The longer you look…
Trespassing & Tiaras
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
You're gunna get cut
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Skelly head
Tasty!
Mamma can you hear me?
Weems out
Debi just hit the wall
The awkward stencil
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
We're not sure what's happening here
Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Fancy birthday presents
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
When doors attack
Blobby woman parts galore
A pretty freeway
Move over, Judith!
Good alternative to stargazing
The big Untitled
From one museum to another
What are you, chicken?
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
OUCH
No boys allowed
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
You da man Glenn Ligon
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Rodney King's zeitgeist
words of a griffin
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Too truisms
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
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-...
So get ready!
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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
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
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
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
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
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
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The power girl of modern art
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Multi-use materials
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
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,...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
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...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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...
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...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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...
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...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
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...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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!? ...
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...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Careful, might make you howl!
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
