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Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
A gift to the Nation
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
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I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Get elevated
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Wearing a vest of many colors
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Island in the Plains
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Who run the world? Girls!
Made in a cabin
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Doctor Who is here a lot
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Was the Medici's office building
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What is the meaning of life?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The perils of flirting on a boat
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...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Take that Uncle Sam!
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Not everyone's photogenic
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Nature is awesome
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Portrait-ception
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
Hey big spender
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
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...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The penis is v. important in this one
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Fancy birthday presents
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
thump-thump thump-thump
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
Not accurate
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
A mystery lady
Magic mirror on the wall
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
What filter is that?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
Paint with all seven fingers
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
No more drinkie
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
The spirit of Caesar
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
That other pandemic
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
Actually, she likes this portrait
#MeToo circa 1600
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
Selfie with a Straw Hat
More like Honest Babe
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Careful, might make you howl!
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Roses really smell like...
Demons never looked so sexy
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
Marilyn Morimura
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
Amsterdam gothic
It’s a rich man’s world
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Friend of the fam
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Study up!
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Sister sister
Highly disturbing
Sexy and I know it
“No one will even see it…”
Stank face
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
Shades of Black
Long names and titles
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Just another beheading. Yawn
Can't hide a prostitute
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
Don't call it a comeback
A burn too sick for the ER
French portrait inception
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
So get ready!
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Not Antea, but it's a good story
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Synesthetic symphony
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Lest we forget
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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It's kind of a big deal
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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