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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Left the nunnery...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Peek-a-boob
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Intended for Mature Audiences
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Flowers are heavy
Carnation confrontation
*deep existential sigh*
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Nightmares of Rococo
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Low Countries, low genre
Not as mystical as it seems
We want the Funk
How times have changed...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Pretty but poisonous
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The artist's favorite colleague
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
