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We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Gustave, the babysitter of the impressionists.
The battle of wits has begun!
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
A teacher's nightmare
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
