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Too cool for New Zealand
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Margaret Thatcher called him "that man who paints those dreadful pictures"
Brothel artist
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Red is the coldest color
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sorry PETA
Behold, the contents of your nightmares
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Bacon paints meat
Christian nightmares
Epitome of feeling blue
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Meat blender
Star-spangled liar
Slumped from stigmata
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...
Making money via faith.
What filter is that?
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We want the Funk
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Pre-bullets in the neck
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
BFF's til the end
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
