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Ginsu knife commercial?

Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...

Classic Hirst

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Begging for bad karma

With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...

Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time?  ...

Picasso does Mary Cassatt

If only babysitting were this glamorous…

Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...

Don't lose your junior junior

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

  Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...

Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico

Bled red, white and blue

Is...that how you do it?

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

Sweet baby Jesus

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Probably cursed

You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...

May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...

You are what you eat

Her bare feet on the soil

  The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...

There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

A mother's gross task

Real Housewives of Paris

A matter of focus

Just breathe

Sultry Mother Nature

Pure, Unadulterated Glycerine Tears

Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...

  Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...

With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...

She had to sit down

Hungry

A fantasy family reunion

Critics were not sorry for his loss

Mary's favorite subject

Patriotic blues in America

Not my Madonna

Mother knows best

Where my girls at?

Critics gonna criticize

Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...

October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...

Selling little children as slaves was a big business in the 1870's

Baby Jesus finally looks his age

A little old baby

Family life in the circus can be in'tents'

Middle finger rises

From one museum to another

Million Dollar Baby Jesus

Isle of Man coin

A study of a toddler

When in Rome

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Sacred moment made earthly and intimate

Sweet baby Jesus, it looks real

There’s no “i” in team

She’s not like other Virgins

No, the other Madonna

This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...

(Source: Aniplex)   In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by  Bronzino at the  Uffizi...

Pretty, fat, and on the fast track

Freud’s favorite painting

All that glitters sometimes actually is gold

Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay

This is what domestic bliss looked like in 1658

Stop and smell the flowers

John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...

Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...

1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens

Unfinished business

Is this what you want?

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.

Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl?  Karl the FOG, that...

Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...

The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...

This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...

Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...

MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...

This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...

Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...

The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...

…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...

Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...

It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...

In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...

Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...

Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

  One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...

We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...

February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...

In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...

Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...

We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...

The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...

Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...

This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...

At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...

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.

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

Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...

Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...

Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

  America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...

With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...

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...

Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...

Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...

Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...

Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...

Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...

Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...

Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...

“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...

In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...

March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...

  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...

Ghosts above the city

Not for the panic attack prone

Khan’t stop, won’t stop

Trespassing & Tiaras

So get ready!

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

  Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...

Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...

  Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...

*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...

*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

Rococ-oh myyyyy!   It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...

It's St. Patrick's Day!  And while we all may be Irish today, these...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...

Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...

In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...

This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...

The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...

This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...

If I could turn back ti-ime!

Literally *fire*

To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...

Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...

  What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...

Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...

Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...

Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...

  Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....

What does Red look like?  Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...

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...

Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...

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...

The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...

  It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...

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...

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...

Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday.  Romantic folk, like my roommate...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...

What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...

Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

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...

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...

Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie?  We...

The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...

Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...

“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...

But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...

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...

We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...

This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...

Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...

Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...

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...

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...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...

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 ...

We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...

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...

You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...

The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

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...

  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 immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...

People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...

Hear ye, hear ye:  “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...

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

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...

This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art

One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...

Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...

While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...

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...

I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo.  Photo @doedeerePablo...

Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...

Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

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...

Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...

Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...

Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...

To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....

What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...

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,...

We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...

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...

Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...

Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...

Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

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…..

Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

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...

Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...

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...

The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...

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...

Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...

Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...

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 ...

In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born.  Empress of couture Elsa...

  If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...

Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like...    The Chichu...

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

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...

I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...

SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...

Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...

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...

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...

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....

Fashion Alert!  Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...

Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...

If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...

It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...

We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...

Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...

The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...

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...

PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!!  Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...

Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

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...

And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...

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...

Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93.  Modern Audiences and Comic...

There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...

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