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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Stone cold
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Pining for a more cheerful shipwreck
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
A political statement
Warhol ate this stuff up
Maybe don't clean your plate
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
“Viva os catadores!"
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Never forget
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Careful, might make you howl!
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
