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“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...

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This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...

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

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

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

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

Pushing Sisyphus' boulder by Jacob's well

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

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

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

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

A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing

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

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

With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...

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Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...

The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...

New art in the windy city

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

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

Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An unfortunate moral dilemma…

Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....

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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...

Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...

…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…

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

Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...

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

*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...

The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...

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

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

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

Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...

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

Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...

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

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

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

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

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

Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”

(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....

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

Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...

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

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

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

Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.

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

By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...

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

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

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

Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...

Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...

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

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

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

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

This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...

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

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

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

As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

So get ready!

It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...

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

The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...

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

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

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

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

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

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

At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it?  Well,...

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

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

Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...

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

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

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

Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...

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

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

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

Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...

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

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

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

Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...

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

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

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

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

“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...

With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...

Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...

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

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

Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...

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

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

We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...

I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...

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

Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...

(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...

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...

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

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

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

It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...

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

Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...

But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:

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

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

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

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

How do you like your museums?  I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...

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

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

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Careful, might make you howl!

Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit)   The...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...

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

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

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

Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...

Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/

Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur

Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...

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

Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...

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

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

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

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Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg

Maman by Louise Bourgeois

Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya

Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum

Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/

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

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art

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

These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik

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

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre

(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt

Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by  Bronzino at the  Uffizi...

Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse

George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...

Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek

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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...

One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art

Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...

Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art