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Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Whodunnit??
An ancient dick pic
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
He's a little young for fetish play
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Sexism sucks
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
"The mystery is unveiled"
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Here comes “Wonderwall”
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Buy now on The Met Store
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Beer goggles gone wrong
Welcome to the circus
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No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
I do my hair toss, check my nails
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Creepy child stare
Savage fashion
In the food court we trust
...but is it porn? If it's porn, it's scary porn
They really do fart rainbows
Modeled after a seventy-eight year old woman
Art is the pits
Just another one of Courbet's tricks
Science meets art meets racism
Penny for her thoughts
Here little darlin’, don’t shed no tears.
Deconstruction of the boob
Mirror mirror on the wall
La Indigenista
Old woman, old school
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Foot fetish anyone?
Crack that whip
This story is juicy
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Oh so sad
"Femme aux Fagots" in French
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Family life in the circus can be in'tents'
RBF, a clinical diagnosis
From one museum to another
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Ma’am, your folds are showing
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Toilette humor
Literacy for women FTW
Pay attention to the peonies
A big old brouhaha
A tale of two testicles?
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Damn, I look good
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Hatscarves rule
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
The one with pants
Friend of an art (not drug) dealer
You spin me right round, baby, right round
This woman don’t need no man
Hillary Clinton saw it and said #relatable
Loneliness in the city
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Glamorous like Fergie
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Where he got his start
We don't know much…
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Real Housewives of Paris
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Couldn't have been a grocery list
Who is she?
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Girl crush
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Oh shit!
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This is what domestic bliss looked like in 1658
Mary Poppins?
Live easels
Dreaming in Harlem
(You Drive Me) Crazy
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Sexy stocking stuffers
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Ditch the myth, keep the sex
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Shades of Black
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Viewer discretion advised
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Obsessed with calligraphy
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A stiff upper lip
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Loves ants
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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
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...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Yea, that's his real name
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Great beard, better art
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Donuts for the people!
