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At the bottom of the sea
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
Buy now on Amazon
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Stuck at home again
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
A little help from our friends
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Check your home security system people
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Concrete Jungle
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Watch now
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It's not a vagina!
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
Buy now on The Met Store
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Vive La Revolution!
Urban anxiety aplenty
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Need a ride?
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Used to be a palace, v. chic
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
"Hyperreal"
An innocent red dot
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
She's a Jill of all trades
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Sir Shameless
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
