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A really, really bad trip
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
T for Tony
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Not all temptations are equally tempting
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Straight outta Herford
Matthew 19:21
No problem, Señor Diablo
Sh*t’s Escalating...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Blonde, good looking, Aryan, yet Hitler hated his art and therefore hated him
Obsessive painter of self portraits. Died before he could be shipped to a concentration camp.
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Resistance is futile
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Buy now on Amazon
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Not just for Adam and Eve
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Confused birds with humans and hung out at insane asylums
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Watch now
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Life in the commune
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
Antichrist got nuthin' on this
Brace yourself
Astrologically incorrect
Almost all blond
“Iceberg straight ahead!”
Gatsby eat your heart out
Clown throwback
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Too turnt
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
Honoring Healy
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Unfinished business
To kill a nightingale
Random cat alert
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Real housewives of 1636
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
These women rock
If ya can't sell it, break it
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
"Talent is cheap"
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
