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Teacher of artists
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Skating on thick ice
Buy now on Amazon
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Sibling rivalry
All you need is love
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Provocative shadows
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
The Photocentric Cynic
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Named after a beer maker
I would walk 500 miles...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Sister wife
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Stolen for the nicest reasons
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
"I like that queasy feeling"
Rebel in pantaloons
It's like a painting, see?
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Ocean's 11 it was not
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
So we beat on, boats against the current
Remember when Columbus kidnapped people to show them off?
Original cowboys
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Buy now on Taschen
Gay, kinky, happy to stir controversy, brilliant, died of AIDS
A whole lot of lovin'
Master of Flémalle, expert at the oils, expatriated for sleeping with girls
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
Volcanoes, pirates and cannibals, oh my!
Minimal man
OG Abstract Expressionist
Loved columns
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Had a good head on his shoulder named Sonia
Making a statement
The Inventor of the Snapshot
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
He married a rich model
A good man in a messed up world
Armchair tourism pays off
Save the horses!
Copying can be a legitimate career choice sometimes
Sgt. of Art
Love is a many splendored thing
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Watch now
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a studio boat!
Real Housewives of Paris
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
University of California professor who died of cancer, possibly caused by chemicals used in his art
A monumental talent
First internationally acclaimed African American artist
It starts with a single line
You've got a friend in me
A wandering painter
Briggsy
Click here to find God!
Where's that dam photo?
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
Has a disease named after him
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Would rather throw spitballs than study
Painting with at least 18 different titles
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
World’s worst word search
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Not one for the Christmas card
Sisters before mistresses
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had 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...
Not your mama's still life
Get a clue
'As she fills his dream'
Ok Cupid!
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Family portrait time!
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
Revolution!
A walk on the beach
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Made in a cabin
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Sorry PETA
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Late night liaisons
The land of breast milk and honey
Bringin' sexy back
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
War photographer who hated war
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Picture perfect American naivete
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Drawn to the dark side
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Teddy Roosevelt turns out to be a harsh art critic
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
If you don't have a canvas, use your bed
All About the Combines Baby
Pregnancy test from On High
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Ruffled feathers
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Dumpster diving goes upscale
He's a brick house
Semi-Homemade paintings
Across the Universe on paper
Bay Area uptown funk
Like characters in a Henry James novel
The pitfalls of trying to sell stolen art
Everybody dance now
Stalin hated it!
Before Freddy Krueger there were still things that went bump in the night
Neato nature
Guy about to invent writing: oh, you haven't heard?
There's no such thing as bad publicity
Fake it 'til you make it
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Act spontaneous!
Bless your heart
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
All hail the king
It's 5 o'clock somewhere
The calm before the storm... Or eruption
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
All is not what it seems in this trippy triptych
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Robert likes Ken
It's naht a tu-mah! It's his bicep!
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
POOF it's gone
Portrait of a penis?
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
Shipping included
Cruel prank on vain people
Good, but not great...
Stairway to the future
Don't panic, it's organic
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Savage fashion
Those have got to be implants
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Do the thing! Win the sports!
Don’t be so naive
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Planting seeds
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Grab a mai-tai
God save the Queen!
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Hubba hubba
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
Taste the rainbow
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Big Alma celebrates a "win" (Filipinos may see it differently)
The man who made "dance 'till you drop" into an art form
What are you, chicken?
Need a ride?
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
No bra days are the best days
When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands
Big henry
Playing dress up
Not balloon animals
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
A tender moment
“You’re blocking my light”
Iconic... apparently
Little pig's tail
Rock the casbah!
Squares are people too
It's almost like you're there
Now you see me...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Paint me like one of your classmates
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Now you see it, now you don't
A crotch by any other name...
Do not jump in this leaf pile
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Green ladies are always the nicest
Didn't turn out great, as you might guess
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
A political pain in the ass
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Lit by divinity
Praying to have faith
The right to bear arms?
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Lovely ladies
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative
Harsher on racists than Trump
So this is why they call them blueprints
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
This one’s for all the haters.
A star is born
I want to paint it black
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
1,2,3 Kick!
Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party
Daddy's little girl grows up
Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Œdipus starts some drama
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Heavenly view
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
