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Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
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Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Drawn to the dark side
Before Freddy Krueger there were still things that went bump in the night
There's no such thing as bad publicity
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Now you see me...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Teacher of artists
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Œdipus starts some drama
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Love and other bulls%!#
Storm's a'brewin'?
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
He married a rich model
A good man in a messed up world
Armchair tourism pays off
Save the horses!
Copying can be a legitimate career choice sometimes
Sgt. of Art
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bad and Boujee
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
A wandering painter
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Briggsy
Click here to find God!
Where's that dam photo?
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Magic of the Giant Toad
Has a disease named after him
Would rather throw spitballs than study
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Viagra was the duke's only wish
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Not at night and not very watchful
Light up the night!
Don’t eat it please.
Just what is going on here?
The pitfalls of trying to sell stolen art
Everybody dance now
Stalin hated it!
Neato nature
Guy about to invent writing: oh, you haven't heard?
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Party like it's 1668
You've probably seen this everywhere
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Avada Kedavra
A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
Sibling rivalry
Savage fashion
Those have got to be implants
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Grab a mai-tai
Do the thing! Win the sports!
Don’t be so naive
God save the Queen!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Rain on me
No bra days are the best days
When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands
Big henry
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Playing dress up
Not balloon animals
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
A tender moment
“You’re blocking my light”
Iconic... apparently
Little pig's tail
Rock the casbah!
Squares are people too
It's almost like you're there
Rebel in pantaloons
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The other Starry Night
Anyone have a nail file?
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Green ladies are always the nicest
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative
Didn't turn out great, as you might guess
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy
Harsher on racists than Trump
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
A political pain in the ass
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Lit by divinity
Praying to have faith
So this is why they call them blueprints
The right to bear arms?
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
1,2,3 Kick!
Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party
Daddy's little girl grows up
Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Heavenly view
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!
Health care for sex workers
Skating on thick ice
Those who can't do, paint
A quiet day at the brothel
Smart girls don't buy sight unseen
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Rip van drinkle
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
A bargain at twice the price
I’ll never understand humans
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Explosive high kicks
Sexy stocking stuffers
Spot all the artist’s besties
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...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Don't call it a comeback
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Happiness and sanity are not correlated
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Puppy painter extraordinaire
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
So get ready!
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Not a nature guy
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Cross dressing revolutionary
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Señor Sticky Fingers
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
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It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
