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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's almost like you're there
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Remix!
Just what is going on here?
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Local good guys
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Whodunnit??
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Mining doesn’t cause death
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
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...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
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Shades of Black
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Obsessed with calligraphy
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The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Loves ants
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
No more fake news!
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
So get ready!
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Yea, that's his real name
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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Great beard, better art
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
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If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Donuts for the people!
Nothing like your grandma
Works that body
Minimal man
Rising star
Not a sports guy
She's still Jenny from the Block
The VR star
Punched William Carlos Williams in the face
Museum as canvas
Not suitable for children
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The Great Deconstructor
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
"Talent is cheap"
Nature collagist
I’m not Pop, you are.
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
"Fell" out of a 34th floor window during an argument
Screamer
One man's trash is this man's treasure
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
Obey!
The trickster
From ant watcher to artist
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
One of her shows got shut down by the police
Sculpted strange tableaux, and died too young.
When a fire starts to burn...she'll be there
Abracadabra!
She's a Jill of all trades
Old style, new subjects
So. Cool.
Show her your beach bod
Cute politico
Almost murderer
Like a hoarder, but with less of the mess
Of the so-called “fuck off generation” of Chinese artists
One Who Is Talented
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
Rock on Yves...
Stellar
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
From begging to bed-in
Dopehead? Maybe. Genius? Def.
Bad boy from Switzerland
May have been brain dead once
So wildly badass it's hard to handle
Died young in Ibiza
The rabble-rouser herself
Schmoozing to pass the time
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Provocative shadows
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
Fountain Lady
Basic betches love Banksy
The uncanny valley of kitsch
Brush is mightier than the stethoscope
Her genital puns are not gentle
Picked a dangerous medium for someone so unlucky.
Trash to treasure
Let him blow ya mind
Brother nature
Hello Kitty on shrooms
Vomits rainbows
Genius from Korea
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Cutting racial commentary
Outsider turned insider
Got tired of brushes v quickly
Creepy art
He made geometry dramatic
OG Abstract Expressionist
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Steel mill is his studio
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Glamourous...
Expat
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Always on the Lookout for Technological Invention and Innovation in Film.
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
Does a surprisingly good Mona Lisa impression
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Queen of appropriation
Ain't no quilting granny
If Star Trek is your thing...
Didn't want to live in America anyway
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Loves zoot suits
Competing with Mother Nature
The Black Atlantic
Ground Control to Major Tom
Not your average frontiersman
Favorite hangout? The desert.
The Inventor of the Snapshot
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Born to watch paint dry
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Promoter, businessman, married a porn star more famous than him
Screamin' in Sweden (not really, he was Norwegian)
Copycat extraordinaire
The art world's Bono, but with better hair
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
Literally blew the whistle on art world elitism
Political radical with a cute mustache
Lord of Lights
Dainty art
Old school, but not in the cool way
Britain's most hated artist
The art world's thesaurus
She knows what she wants
Not a feel-good kind of guy
That creepy toddler artist
She's different
Has so many feelings
Chairs, man…
On the dot
Artistic progeny
Picasso fanboy
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Look Ma, no ear
Part monk, part playboy
Loves headless figures
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Size matters...
Man Ray sounds more dangerous than Emmanuel Radnitzky
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
A good man in a messed up world
Stained canvases with gorgeous color
Jean du All Trades
Taste, hear, and smell these
A man of many names and many loves
“Art is swindle.”
Great fighter of censorship
Cuz he’s all about that place
Annoyingly talented
Painted guns, girls, and government figures.
Modernism’s Black voice.
He's dynamite
A Kodak family
An artist of war
I just want to do something personal
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Probably banged your girlfriend
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
