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One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Paint-ception
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Probably banged your girlfriend
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Five museums for the price of one
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
A colorful feast
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Villainous Treachery
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Gimme those pearls
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
It’s all about perspective
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Suspicious lack of togas
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Promiscuous people have feelings too
Double the sadness, none of the fun
Storm's a'brewin'?
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
"Liberated" from Mr. Siemens
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Singin’ in a ring
More than just delicious desserts
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
Watch now
Squares are people too
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Two women who don't want to talk to you
2 dope queens
To kill a nightingale
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you
Lit by divinity
She’s not like other Virgins
That darn cat
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
It’s electric!
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
Monument to a bromance
Sisters before mistresses
The Bowery, before it had a Whole Foods.
Cheshire Cat?
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
I'll have what she's having
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Its hip to be square (or rectangular)
We want the Funk
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Men react to the friendzone
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Spot all the artist’s besties
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Spear me maybe?
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
