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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
He loved his mommy
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Can't hide a prostitute
She had to sit down
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
This room drove its owner insane
Failure to sell
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Half peacock Half man
A bit of a reach...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
L'Origin du Monde fully dressed
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Not a nice girl
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Island in the Plains
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
Happy wife happy life!
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Buy now on Amazon
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
From billboards to pop art was an easy transition...
Los Angeles legend, master of the evocative cityscapen
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
Degas meets Rob Zombie
My dagguero-type of guy
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Bringing Black bodies to the forefront
Yes We Ashcan
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
A wandering painter
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Had notorious dance moves
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
I want to paint it black
Build me up, buttercup
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
It's not vandalism if your heart is in the right place
Like the evil twin, except super nice
The Supreme square
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Anonymous strikes again
Stuff Rich People Own
The manifesto man's miniseries
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Flower or vagina, that is the question
Blobby woman parts galore
Everyone needs a good LBD
The German George Carlin
Big-time First Lady
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
To the Earl goes the spoils
Three's company
Painter of fashionable life
It's not a vagina!
Where the pier meets the ocean
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Getting ready to jam
Fashionista
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Sexy kinda
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Flashing all that bling bling
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Quit your squawking
Not your average portraiture
Torture in dungeon 5
Summertime, and the livin' is eaaasy
words of a griffin
They're not making chili
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Not so Plastic Pat
She's a man eater
You talkin’ to me?
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
Hey, Sista Sista
Bird's eye view
When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie
The Phantom of the Opera: Vol. II
Carnival cruelty
Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man
Pictures of You
Remind me who that is?
What's for sale?
James, time to clean your room...
Agent...
Oysters and vaginas, big difference
It's tourist season
“An interesting bird…”
Daddy of the constitution
Get your mind outta the gutter!
#MILF
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If you know, you know, you know?
The Mad Masker
The new gang at McDonaldland
Come sail away
No white picket fences here
Move over, Judith!
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Skeletons are people too, ya know
Proust's frenemy
Honoring Healy
We exist in this space
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Let's talk about housing
Seven shades of black
Not your average garden party
Sadly, still relevant
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Taking one for the team
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Calling folks out
11th president of the USA
The perils of flirting on a boat
Balling with Garfield
LL, is that you?
The bachelor president
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Sister sister
Mo money, mo problems
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Anyone have a nail file?
Feasting feathered friends
Just another beheading. Yawn
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
A spiritual about-face
I’ll never understand humans
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Buy now on The Met Store
If ya can't sell it, break it
Shades of Black
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Man of many hats
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Out in the Renaissance while still in the closet
I’m not Pop, you are.
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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
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
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
