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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
All Vinny, all the time
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
What’s coal got to do with it?
Selfie with a Straw Hat
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Look Ma, no ear
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
My best hat yet
Used to patch a chicken coop
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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....
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
I am talented and successful
We love a hat moment
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Beyond Gauguin & evil
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
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....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Portrait-ception
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Not accurate
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Calling folks out
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Let it all hang out
Breakups will make us do crazy things
What filter is that?
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Paint with all seven fingers
No more drinkie
The spirit of Caesar
That other pandemic
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
The other Starry Night
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Sexy kinda
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Hatscarves rule
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Family portrait time!
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Shades of Black
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Great Scott!
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
We don't look good until you look good
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The abnormally happy couple
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Pray the air conditioning holds out
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Amsterdam gothic
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
OUCH
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Not everyone's photogenic
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Too turnt
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The Pope who partied
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Stolen, found, but not returned
Big-time First Lady
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Portraits of Belleville
To the Earl goes the spoils
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Gothic tipi?
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
thump-thump thump-thump
This story is juicy
The Sun King
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
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
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
A mystery lady
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Was it all a dream?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
More like Honest Babe
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Roses really smell like...
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
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!
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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!
Long names and titles
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Obsessed with calligraphy
For one BIG garden
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
These women rock
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It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Not Antea, but it's a good story
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Synesthetic symphony
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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So get ready!
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