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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Identity crisis
Oh say can you see
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John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
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With gusto
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Boo!
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Watch now
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Happy wife, happy life… and hopefully she makes some boys
Abstract-ish
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Buy now on Taschen
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Treasures around every corner
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
It's good to be bad
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Too school for cool
Rethinking calling their Armada unsinkable
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Emasculates the German government
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
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Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Criticizing the critics
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Stellar
When Doves Cry
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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 Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
So get ready!
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Man of many hats
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Say that name five times fast.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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
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
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
