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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Those who can't do, paint
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The cold shoulder, literally
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or Picasso's, or Duchamp's, or de Kooning's
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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Eats 100-dollar bills for breakfast
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Her goddess superpowers come from her pruning tool
Pretty princesses
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Picture day
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Highly disturbing
Failure to sell
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Rage-inducing abstraction
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
That way it’s rent-free
Sexy and I know it
Long names and titles
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
