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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
A hairy art critic
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
So get ready!
Watch now
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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...
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
Treasures around every corner
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Buy now on Amazon
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Too school for cool
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Criticizing the critics
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
When Doves Cry
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Man of many hats
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Say that name five times fast.
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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
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
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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...
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...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
