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All Vinny, all the time
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Look Ma, no ear
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Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
Is that a sword in your pocket?
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
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Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Oldest museum in the world
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Russian Ark
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Former tobacco plantation
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Too turnt
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Hatscarves rule
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
A treasure trove of gold
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Funky art in the heart of farm country
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Latin LACMA
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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The abnormally happy couple
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
For one BIG garden
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Amsterdam gothic
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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Pasta is her brain fuel
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