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The sweetest of portraits
Still waters run deep
Ghosts above the city
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If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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A bit stuck up, but painted the truth
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Serious Traveler, Serious Painter
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Watch now
Claustrophobics beware
So we beat on, boats against the current
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Don’t send nudes
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
All booked up
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Sad and censored
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Great Scott!
Monument to a bromance
Synesthetic symphony
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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…
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Trespassing & Tiaras
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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?
Fancy birthday presents
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
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The fight over our genitals rages on
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
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Not everyone's photogenic
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Portrait-ception
words of a griffin
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
We don't need to know the way home
New art in the windy city
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Too truisms
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
thump-thump thump-thump
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
Not accurate
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
A mystery lady
Magic mirror on the wall
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
What filter is that?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
Paint with all seven fingers
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
No more drinkie
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
The spirit of Caesar
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
That other pandemic
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
Accidental POTUS
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
#MeToo circa 1600
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
Selfie with a Straw Hat
More like Honest Babe
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Roses really smell like...
Demons never looked so sexy
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
Marilyn Morimura
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
Amsterdam gothic
It’s a rich man’s world
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Friend of the fam
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Study up!
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Sister sister
Highly disturbing
Sexy and I know it
“No one will even see it…”
Stank face
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
Shades of Black
Long names and titles
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Just another beheading. Yawn
Can't hide a prostitute
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
Don't call it a comeback
A burn too sick for the ER
French portrait inception
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Total math nerd
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Armchair tourism pays off
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
So get ready!
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
