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Not a nice girl
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Buy now on Amazon
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Only men can see this one
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Had notorious dance moves
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This room drove its owner insane
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Build me up, buttercup
Matthew 19:21
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Hard cider is good
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
She had to sit down
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Not allowed to be political
This one’s for all the haters.
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Failure to sell
Not your average portraiture
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Half peacock Half man
A bit of a reach...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
From portraitist to executioner?
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
A burn too sick for the ER
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
These women rock
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The penis is v. important in this one
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
"Talent is cheap"
Born into a lucky time
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
He loved his mommy
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Careful, might make you howl!
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
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
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!
