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Ginsu knife commercial?
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Classic Hirst
Buy now on Amazon
Begging for bad karma
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
If only babysitting were this glamorous…
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Don't lose your junior junior
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Bled red, white and blue
Is...that how you do it?
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Sweet baby Jesus
Probably cursed
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
You are what you eat
Her bare feet on the soil
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...
A mother's gross task
Real Housewives of Paris
A matter of focus
Just breathe
Sultry Mother Nature
Pure, Unadulterated Glycerine Tears
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
She had to sit down
Hungry
A fantasy family reunion
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Critics were not sorry for his loss
Mary's favorite subject
Patriotic blues in America
Not my Madonna
Mother knows best
Where my girls at?
Critics gonna criticize
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Selling little children as slaves was a big business in the 1870's
Baby Jesus finally looks his age
A little old baby
Family life in the circus can be in'tents'
Middle finger rises
From one museum to another
Million Dollar Baby Jesus
Isle of Man coin
A study of a toddler
When in Rome
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Sweet baby Jesus, it looks real
There’s no “i” in team
She’s not like other Virgins
No, the other Madonna
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Freud’s favorite painting
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
This is what domestic bliss looked like in 1658
Stop and smell the flowers
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Unfinished business
Is this what you want?
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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.
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
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
So get ready!
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
