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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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Best art deco building in San Francisco
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
A crotch by any other name...
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Concrete Jungle
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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City living
It's not a vagina!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Vive La Revolution!
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Not allowed to be political
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
"Hyperreal"
An innocent red dot
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Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
