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The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Smoking something?
An interactive work
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Mmmm...peacock
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
X” Marks the Spot
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Remind me who that is?
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Making money with your friends
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
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
Only men can see this one
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!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Obsessed with calligraphy
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
