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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
No point in watering these beans
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Better at organizing festivals than Ja Rule
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It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Paint me like one of your fruit baskets
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
Art of decay
The flaming allegory
To every thing there is a season
"Man is a whole world of its own..."
Arcimboldo humiliates a coworker
Don't judge a book by the cover...or face
Why’d you have to be so crudité?
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!...and Fascism!
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Over the rainbow
Isle of Man coin
Wearing a vest of many colors
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Butts, butts, butts, butts
Baller Jesus
Rodney King's zeitgeist
End of Days Dudes
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Atomic ghosts
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....
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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,...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
