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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
God save the Queen!
Gimme those pearls
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Everybody loves a celebration!
What was he on, and where can we get some?
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Not so great for shopping
Urban angst
If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
Cleopatra’s favorite fake relative
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Bad weather, good painting
That sass though
Urban anxiety aplenty
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Now that's a resting bitch face
My muse is a medieval rampart
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Viagra was the duke's only wish
She's pretty... too pretty
Romantic load of crap
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Bow down
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
Just another naked lady
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
"Hyperreal"
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
A little help from our friends
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
