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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Stone cold
Oh say can you see
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Pining for a more cheerful shipwreck
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
A political statement
Warhol ate this stuff up
Maybe don't clean your plate
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
“Viva os catadores!"
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Never forget
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Careful, might make you howl!
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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Hippest place in Brighton
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
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Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Considerable collections
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
