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You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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...
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I spy with my little eye…
Ah-Woooooo!
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Not your average numbered painting
You used WHAT kind of paint
No, your kid could not have painted this
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Neato nature
The nap knight
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...
Too school for cool
Watch now
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Sleeping... Dancing... Sleep-dancing?
Paradise but dramatic
A smorgasbord of structures
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Bad prez
THE Jesse Jackson
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
PYT was actually about Bubbles the Chimp
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Great Scott!
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Banned for a while
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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He's bad
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The long-legged elephant in the room
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Stuff Rich People Own
The sweetest of portraits
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Not everyone's photogenic
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Portrait-ception
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
Olympia who?
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
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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!
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
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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,...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
(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...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Synesthetic symphony
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
So get ready!
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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?
Hollyweird
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
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
