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.
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Buy now on Amazon
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Up in flames
Can't get more LA than this
Pop politics
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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....
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
“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...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
