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Not sad, just blue
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Hey, Sista Sista
That 1970s vibe
Glass half full kinda gal
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
America, hell yeah!
Hypochondriac, loved prostitutes and women generally, tolerated male patrons only for their money
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Started as an acrobat!
An artist so uncontroversial, even his portrait is in black and white.
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Hard drinking, homophobic, thought museum curators were pansies
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Watch now
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Crikey, this one's a biter
Selling "fruit"
Not not the kraken
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Art thieves caught red handed
Recycled tears
He's a little young for fetish play
It was her this whole time
Maximum Maxim's
Sadly, still relevant
Buy now on Taschen
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Not your typical odalisque
Stay in the grid
Who needs friends when you have horses?
Why so bleu?
Epitome of feeling blue
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...
This room drove its owner insane
They go together like cat and eel
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Half a babe is still a babe in our book
Let's hope this does not go with a giant diaper
Steamrolled Smurf
As advertised
A worrisome thing
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Picture day
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Why wear gym shorts?
No homo!
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
The Maine Adventure
The creepy old guy is Benton being honest about being a creepy old guy
Good times
Token of a troubled bromance
Bad prez
Designed by a sculptor, built by a slave
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Sir Talks-a-lot
Tribute to a Dutch painter
Paradise but dramatic
His passion...
He had an eye for music (and nudity...)
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
The doctor is in
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Get your mind outta the gutter!
Rage-inducing abstraction
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Downton Abbey lookin' mofo
Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
Cinderelly Cinderelly
Benton's ode to the life he never had
Black Girl Magic
A classic conversation piece
Playing dress up
The face of romance
Real recognize real
Pimp my wagon
He left the cat for last
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
A bit of a reach...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Bringin' sexy back
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Nature, space travel, blocks-- it’s got everything
Row, row, row your boat
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Troublemaker!
Painting the patron
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
“No one will even see it…”
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
So get ready!
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
He got very Close
Precocious
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Curious George and pals
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
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...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Diabeetus
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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....
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
