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Owed money all over town
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
The other Rembrandt
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Death to rapist scum!
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
All Vinny, all the time
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Not quite an immaculate conception
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Look Ma, no ear
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.
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Not at night and not very watchful
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
You’ll never trust a cow again
Dinner party gone sour
Demoted then promoted
It’s dark in here…
Netflix and chill?
Vintage Gender Bender
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
We don't look good until you look good
Big (Sugar) Momma's House
First first lady
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
A colorful feast
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
Your capitalism is showing
Damn, I look good
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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A somber portrait lurks behind a somber portrait
More than just a Hamilton character
When ‘I told you so’ doesn’t feel so sweet
Star-spangled liar
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Rembrandt’s only seascape is one of the most famous stolen paintings yet to be found
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Power of a flower
Little pig's tail
Just across the Waterwolf
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Crime doesn't pay, but painting can
The hero with one eye
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
We're all going streaking!
She loves me… She loves me not…
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Too turnt
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
Not pregnant, just well dressed
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Most stolen work of art ever!
Think twice before your next wax
Looks huge, is actually tiny
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Sexy kinda
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
“I am so down to earth”
Vincent's future?
Not a creepy guy at all…
Two scoops of red hyacinths
One wild and sexy lady
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Up in flames
Hatscarves rule
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.
Check out that window
Nasty storm
Known as "the Little Magician"
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
Rockstar painter and (unknowingly) painter of album covers for rockstars
Under the big tent
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
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...
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Get ready for the waterworks
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
She's pretty... too pretty
Where do we hang this?
Ambassador extraordinaire
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Selfie with a Straw Hat
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
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Not your typical odalisque
The forbidden male nude
It takes a woman to give nudes true personality
To gaze or not to gaze?
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Umbrella collector
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Who said artists can't be good at business?
Dutch nicknames are bizarre
He gave the people what they wanted
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The abnormally happy couple
The Young and the Restless meets The Old and the Feckless
So. creepy.
Creepers gonna creep
Why the long face?
That's So Graven
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!
Like a sale at your local mall...in Hell.
Tie the devil to a pillow
Think of what you'd save on wrinkle cream...
Graceful
It takes two to tango
The OG wet t-shirt contest
Really expensive calendar
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Time to break out your magnifying glass
omg a wedding in a barn, that's so on trend
It's Saul in utter chaos
Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party
A teacher's nightmare
When he ugly but he Jesus
Original cowboys
Gallery within a gallery
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
For one BIG garden
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
Boy drowns; no one cares
2 spoopy 4 me
An ophthalmologist's favorite painting
Mmmm...peacock
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Freaky families
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers
A-Hunting We Will Go
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Two of each
Paint me in too, old buddy
Where do I look first?
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Girl next door
It’s a rich man’s world
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Just another beheading. Yawn
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Amsterdam gothic
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Pasta is her brain fuel
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Silk-eh, not Silky
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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
Too school for cool
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
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
