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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
Never forget
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Act spontaneous!
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Careful, might make you howl!
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Take that Uncle Sam!
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Possible peace portrait
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Hippest place in Brighton
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Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Those Swiss have got it all!
Considerable collections
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Commemorating the Holocaust
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Diabeetus
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The best backdrop President Obama ever had
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
