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Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Illustrated children's books to pay the rent
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Outsider
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Washington’s premier color-field frat
The Sun King
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Portrait-ception
That's one melancholic Madame
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Big Daddy of it all
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
Buy now on The Met Store
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Drama, drama, drama
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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A burn too sick for the ER
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
A bargain at twice the price
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Great Scott!
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
An orchestra of orcas?
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Don't call it a comeback
Do what you're good at
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Buy now on Taschen
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The sweetest of portraits
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Tummy ache?
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Gay as a moonbeam
A cute outfit can't save you
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Not everyone's photogenic
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
From portraitist to executioner?
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Synesthetic symphony
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Art thieves caught red handed
It came back positive
Teaching aide
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Waity Katie no more!
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
Talent out the wazoo
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Two women who don't want to talk to you
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
It’s all about perspective
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
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
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Cézanne's remix
The penis is v. important in this one
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Illustrator extraordinaire
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
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 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
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
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Cultural appropriation at its finest
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Just another naked lady
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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
When Doves Cry
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
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
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!
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
COTTON EYED JOE
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Speaking out can have consequences
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
French portrait inception
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Step right up!
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
The Inventor of the Snapshot
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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 ...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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...
