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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Best art deco building in San Francisco
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
A crotch by any other name...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Check your home security system people
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Concrete Jungle
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It's not a vagina!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Vive La Revolution!
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
"Hyperreal"
An innocent red dot
A little help from our friends
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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...
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
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...
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...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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 –...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
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...
