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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
They grow up so fast
Ladies first!
You think you know, but you have no idea.
America, hell yeah!
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Zebulon's son
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You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Not your mama's still life
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Space Fan Art
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
I like big butts and I cannot lie
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Careful, might make you howl!
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
You're gunna get cut
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Paradise but dramatic
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
What makes her smile?
Made in a cabin
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Think twice before your next wax
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Old school drinking game in progress
God save the Queen!
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
17th century drinking game anyone?
Like Mavericks, but safer
Straight outta Camden
Colossally romantic
When he ugly but he Jesus
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
SAMO's Pharaoh
Go ahead and take a peek
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
Viagra was the duke's only wish
"Sleep"
Rags-to-riches before it was cool
Man of many hats
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
A violent piece of history
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Decent navigator, bad salesman
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The Ambassador Quintet
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Can you spot the fakes?
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
