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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Treasures around every corner
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Buy now on Amazon
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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...
paint me like one of your founding fathers
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
Too school for cool
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Criticizing the critics
So get ready!
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
When Doves Cry
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Man of many hats
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Say that name five times fast.
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
