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Does it make you randy baby?
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Cross dressing revolutionary
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Netflix and chill?
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Click here for love potion recipe
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Buy now on Amazon
But is it art?
Not your average love story
A strong case of cold feet
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Not recommended as an anniversary gift
Peekaboo, I see you
The battle of wits has begun!
Reinventing the wheel
You bore me
An interactive work
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Out-of-date wedding announcement
Priceless Transatlantic Trash
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
10 points if you can see a boob
It's heavier than it looks
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Fangirl-ing
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Foot fetish anyone?
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
Toilette humor
The girl who just wanted a bath
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Special delivery
Beloved wife, sort of...
Can we get some privacy, please
Don't mess with this kid
Third time's the charm
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Couldn't have been a grocery list
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Bless your heart
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Mary Poppins?
Is...that how you do it?
Cultural appropriation at its finest
Taking one for the team
Live easels
A cute outfit can't save you
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Sexy stocking stuffers
“No one will even see it…”
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Before they hated each other's guts
Deep, dark humor
How times have changed...
Possibly evidence of a murder most foul
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Freaky families
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
After 200 years we have the truth
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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?
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
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
