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Urban angst
Hitler hated him
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What was he on, and where can we get some?
Loneliness in the city
The hills are alive
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Confused birds with humans and hung out at insane asylums
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Antichrist got nuthin' on this
Astrologically incorrect
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Everybody loves a celebration!
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Not so great for shopping
A really, really bad trip
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Bad dude in a tranquil moment
Bad weather, good painting
That sass though
Urban anxiety aplenty
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
To kill a nightingale
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Quilting’s easy… if you’re a genius
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
"Hyperreal"
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Gone too soon
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(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...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
