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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
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Tie the devil to a pillow
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Planting seeds
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“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
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
