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Man of mystery
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We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
Wearing a vest of many colors
Scott the X-man or Sir Isaac Newton?
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Instead of a pumpkin carriage, you get TB!
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
That's Master Richard to you!
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters 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...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
