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The plural of sphinx is sphinges
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
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Little Miss Cat Pic
Act spontaneous!
Old McCubism had a farm
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...
Bringin' sexy back
Dance, ballerina, dance
More than a circus act
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The Ambassador Quintet
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
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...
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...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
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...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
