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Priceless Transatlantic Trash
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Calling all cynical pessimists!
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10 points if you can see a boob
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Fangirl-ing
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Foot fetish anyone?
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
Toilette humor
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Special delivery
Beloved wife, sort of...
Can we get some privacy, please
Don't mess with this kid
Third time's the charm
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Couldn't have been a grocery list
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Bless your heart
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
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Mary Poppins?
Is...that how you do it?
Cultural appropriation at its finest
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Live easels
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Before things got ugly life was very good
Sexy stocking stuffers
“No one will even see it…”
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Before they hated each other's guts
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A hotter mascot than the Pope
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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?
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
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The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
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Ghosts above the city
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If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
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Careful, might make you howl!
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
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Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
