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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Oh say can you see
Identity crisis
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
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You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
With gusto
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Boo!
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Happy wife, happy life… and hopefully she makes some boys
Abstract-ish
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
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
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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
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
It's good to be bad
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Too school for cool
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rethinking calling their Armada unsinkable
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Emasculates the German government
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?
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
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
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
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
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Criticizing the critics
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Stellar
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
When Doves Cry
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
So get ready!
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Man of many hats
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Say that name five times fast.
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
