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A pre-Dukehood portrait
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Add medals when necessary
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Dude loved his dots
Dynamic duo
A reminder to always install a sprinkler system in your storage area
Badass portrait painter
No son of mine will be an artist!
Made in a cabin
The evolution of infatuation
Special delivery
Buy now on Amazon
Check it out, bro!
Wearing a vest of many colors
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
It’s a rich man’s world
Buy now on The Met Store
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
First nose job on record!
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Why is a monkey in the middle of France?
Its hip to be square (or rectangular)
Some say it ruins the view
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Local good guys
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Buffalo Bill's Back Fat
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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....
Stickin' it to the man
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Professor Painting right here
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
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...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
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...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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 outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
