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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Just another naked lady
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Buy now on Amazon
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
God save the Queen!
Gimme those pearls
Everybody loves a celebration!
What was he on, and where can we get some?
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Not so great for shopping
Urban angst
Wearing a vest of many colors
If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Bad weather, good painting
That sass though
Urban anxiety aplenty
Now that's a resting bitch face
My muse is a medieval rampart
Witness her
Viagra was the duke's only wish
She's pretty... too pretty
Romantic load of crap
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Bow down
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
"Hyperreal"
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
A little help from our friends
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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....
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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 week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
