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This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Suffered from ADD; good at starting, not finishing. Got caught in a gay foursome
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
I'mma let you finish, but. . .
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
Part two of two!
This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Turn that frown upside down
Cleaning dramaaa
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Freud’s favorite painting
The world's newest most expensive painting
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Happy wife happy life!
BFF's til the end
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Careful, might make you howl!
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Anonymous strikes again
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Where my Doges at?
Big-time First Lady
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
To the Earl goes the spoils
Three's company
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Getting ready to jam
Fashionista
Sexy kinda
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Flashing all that bling bling
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Quit your squawking
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Not so Plastic Pat
She's a man eater
You talkin’ to me?
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
Hey, Sista Sista
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
#MILF
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Taking one for the team
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Sister sister
Mo money, mo problems
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Just another beheading. Yawn
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
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...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
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....
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
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To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
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Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
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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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
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A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
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Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat