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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Flora and Flattery
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Made in a cabin
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Wearing a vest of many colors
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Sorry PETA
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...