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Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
We don't need to know the way home
The fight over our genitals rages on
Not for the panic attack prone
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
New art in the windy city
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Buy now on Amazon
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
We are family
Held her own
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Claustrophobics beware
Not to be confused with Pegasus
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Where my girls at?
Ghosts above the city
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
All booked up
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The sweetest of portraits
Monument to a bromance
Most Egg-cellent
Painting and donors both make a big splash
Let me sit on your shoulders
Not for climbing
Makes your Spidey Sense tingle...but not in a good way
Feet are kind of her thing
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
An MS Paint kinda day
So many bodily fluids
Semi-Homemade paintings
This little piggy went to the market...the stock market that is
Get your hands dirty
Not your average mummy
The longer you look…
Trespassing & Tiaras
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
You're gunna get cut
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Skelly head
Tasty!
Mamma can you hear me?
Weems out
Debi just hit the wall
The awkward stencil
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
We're not sure what's happening here
Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Fancy birthday presents
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
When doors attack
Blobby woman parts galore
A pretty freeway
Move over, Judith!
Good alternative to stargazing
The big Untitled
From one museum to another
What are you, chicken?
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
OUCH
No boys allowed
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
You da man Glenn Ligon
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Rodney King's zeitgeist
words of a griffin
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Too truisms
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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
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
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
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
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
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The power girl of modern art
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Multi-use materials
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
So get ready!
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
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...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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 ...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
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...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
