Sartle requires JavaScript to be enabled in order for you to enjoy its full functionality and user-experience.You can find info on how to enable JavaScript for your browser here.
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Gay as a moonbeam
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
A burn too sick for the ER
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The penis is v. important in this one
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Buy now on Amazon
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Outsider
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Washington’s premier color-field frat
Not a great father son moment
From portraitist to executioner?
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Illustrated children's books to pay the rent
Buy now on The Met Store
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The sweetest of portraits
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
An orchestra of orcas?
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Only men can see this one
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
The Sun King
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Tummy ache?
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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:...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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....
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
"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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Born into a lucky time
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The Inventor of the Snapshot
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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....
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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...
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...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
