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Art thieves caught red handed
Big Daddy of it all
That's one melancholic Madame
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Cezanne's bad boy phase
See you at poker night
Swim anyone?
How you like them apples?
Paul was a bit of a horndog
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
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It’s all about perspective
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Cézanne's remix
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
One Who Is Talented
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Four Rothkos, One Bench
Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It's like a painting, see?
Drama, drama, drama
Crikey, this one's a biter
Not sad, just blue
Selling "fruit"
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Recycled tears
He's a little young for fetish play
It was her this whole time
Maximum Maxim's
Sadly, still relevant
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
They go together like cat and eel
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
A Bieber tattoo
Look at art a little longer
Did you say REDRUM?
On the outside looking in
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Picture day
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Do what you're good at
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
No bra days are the best days
Playing dress up
As advertised
It really ties the room together
When your make-up artist at Sephora is secretly an expressionist
Good riddance to the haterz...and the Pharaoh
Serious hat envy
Give up the boot
Something here looks off
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Slightly psychedelic
Urban anxiety aplenty
Telekinesis never sounded so good
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Between the sheets
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Rage-inducing abstraction
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
It came back positive
Teaching aide
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Waity Katie no more!
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
Talent out the wazoo
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Two women who don't want to talk to you
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Cultural appropriation at its finest
A bargain at twice the price
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Just another naked lady
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
COTTON EYED JOE
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Speaking out can have consequences
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Synesthetic symphony
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Illustrator extraordinaire
Step right up!
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Curious George and pals
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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
