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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Bless your heart
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Ambassador Quintet
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...