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.
Kind of a hodge podge collection plus Salvator Mundi
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Check your home security system people
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Concrete Jungle
Buy now on Amazon
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
It's not a vagina!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Vive La Revolution!
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
An innocent red dot
"Hyperreal"
A little help from our friends
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...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
