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Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
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...
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,...
Whodunnit??
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Don't call it a comeback
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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Obsessed with calligraphy
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Loves ants
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Yea, that's his real name
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Great beard, better art
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
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
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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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
"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
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
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
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
Provocative shadows
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
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
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Born to watch paint dry
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
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
Probably banged your girlfriend
Blonde, good looking, Aryan, yet Hitler hated his art and therefore hated him
Cross dressing revolutionary
Narrowly escaped the Nazis
He got very Close
Painter of bony white women and possible child rapist
#2 to Picasso is still pretty good.
Itching for an etching
NEEEERRRD!
Banker's son, anti Semite, ended up wandering the streets of Paris blind and alone
Would rather throw spitballs than study
If only all sellouts followed his example
Pow!
Precocious
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
19th Century Wolverine
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Sea = Dancer
Professional forger of both Picassos and bank notes
Has a disease named after him
Weird Al's "favorite MC"
Part artist, part comrade
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
So get ready!
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
