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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Only things made 300 years ago or more
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We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
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Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
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A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
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Gustave, the babysitter of the impressionists.
The battle of wits has begun!
Unfinished business
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I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
A teacher's nightmare
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
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Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
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T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
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If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
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...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
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...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
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...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
