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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
Buy now on The Met Store
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Buy now on Amazon
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
A cute outfit can't save you
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
From portraitist to executioner?
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Outsider
Washington’s premier color-field frat
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
The King of a flattering angle
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Do what you're good at
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Brits can't get enough scandal, and he doesn't disappoint
Great fighter of censorship
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Midas, but different
Just couldn't make the aloha stick
Not actually a photographer
Not Picasso's muse Sylvette David
A Scot in Britain
Speaking out can have consequences
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
“Viva la Mexico”
Hey big spender
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Check your home security system people
Napoleon did not like it
A true Romantic
Illustrated children's books to pay the rent
Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel
Watch now
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Pucker up
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
#BlackArtMatters
It's not a vagina!
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Meat blender
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
This little piggy went to the guggenheim
He's seen some stuff
Vive La Revolution!
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Why the long face?
What filter is that?
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
An orchestra of orcas?
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
Damn, I look good
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
Angel of Assassination
David gets sassy
Huge, famous sculpture. (With small, famous dingdong)
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Muse has Rodin by the junk
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Wanna thank your mother for a butt like that
The Sun King
A Lot to handle
These serpents made hiss-tory
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Fancy birthday presents
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
A Case of John Henryism
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Bring your daughters to work day
No days off
A bloody family affair
Another nude, Gerome?
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Check it out, bro!
Twenty-seven, Balling
Œdipus starts some drama
Out-of-date wedding announcement
"Hyperreal"
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Carravagio having a bad head day
Sometimes a cannonball is just a cannonball, but this splash may be naughty
New York is the real city of sin
Don't look at it...
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
Even then it was all about the money
I'll pray for you
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Mining doesn’t cause death
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Those who can't do, paint
Gay as a moonbeam
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Ribbit, ribbit
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
God is somethin', for Hockney we are not sure what
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
O say can you see
A clean sweep for David Ireland
"Puny Eunie"
She hated Frida Kahlo
Dead Lion's Society
Underneath it all
The little ship that couldn't
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
Daddy, buy me a tragic painting
Too much monkey business
A good swattin’
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Decent navigator, bad salesman
Witness her
MORE FIRE
Shades of Black
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
T for Tony
A peeping Hockney's wet dream
Someone needs to call Charles Atlas
Hockney tells the future
Can't get more LA than this
Another unhappy ending
It's called acting
Puff, puff, pass
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
A burn too sick for the ER
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
With new capital, Tim travels to ours
Cheshire Cat?
Wandering to a theater near you
Are you in touch with your feelings?
Spear me maybe?
Rich people in the '60s
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Find the elephant
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The penis is v. important in this one
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Take that Uncle Sam!
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
Sister sister
Such a punchable face
I can’t believe it’s not butter
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Gothic tipi?
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
So get ready!
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Inventor of the Snapshot
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Possible peace portrait
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Painter of fashionable life
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
