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A pre-Dukehood portrait
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Add medals when necessary
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Psychedelic sculptor
Could have been a professional baseball player, but decided to be a painter
Sometimes being a latchkey kid pays off
#2 to Picasso is still pretty good.
Kanye's court painter
Did one of the worst jobs in history
If “Colors of the Wind” was a person
Not one to kiss a**
The early Indigenophile
I'm sorry, but Mr. Grosz isn't here
Chillin with Vincent
Not your average frontiersman
Dude loved his dots
Dynamic duo
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
A reminder to always install a sprinkler system in your storage area
Badass portrait painter
No son of mine will be an artist!
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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The evolution of infatuation
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Check it out, bro!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s a rich man’s world
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
First nose job on record!
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Looking for Love
This painting might scare the s**t out of you
Friendly equine representative from the DSA
Permanently unfit for service
"Degenerate!" - Some Nazi, probably
Three for one special
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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...
Don't talk about it!
Day off
Pow! Right in the kisser
Phallus of France
You're never going to find Waldo
If you wanna see the bearded lady, it's gonna cost extra
It's fun to preach at the YMCA
The Pope's getaway
George, George, George of the Dragon
Robot, genius, or robot genius?
Just lettin’ it all hangout
Can you calculate the Can-can?
Bellows broadens beyond boxing
Best thing since pumpkin spice
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
The macho man goes soft
Rollin' outta battle looking fly
Carnage above facts
The muse with attitude
Exactly the white kind of person
Rock the vote
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
I like it when you call me big poppa
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
The band is breaking up!
The shaaaade of it all
The peanut man
I can paint AND take photos
The ineffective president
Not quite Game of Thrones
When worlds collide
Paint me like one of your classmates
The bachelor president
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
What's a fire and why does it…what's the word? BUUURN
Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
Accidental POTUS
Something's about to go down
Taking photos of working women in public
More like Honest Babe
A tell-all title
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Why is a monkey in the middle of France?
Its hip to be square (or rectangular)
Some say it ruins the view
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Local good guys
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Buffalo Bill's Back Fat
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Stickin' it to the man
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Professor Painting right here
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
