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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Wet blanket
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
This is not a cheer-ocracy
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Oh say can you see
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Stress-free
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
This is an apology portrait.
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Matthew 19:21
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
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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…...
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Total poser
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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,...
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Whodunnit??
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Never forget
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
These women rock
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Careful, might make you howl!
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
"Talent is cheap"
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Shades of Black
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Obsessed with calligraphy
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
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...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Loves ants
Hippest place in Brighton
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Considerable collections
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Commemorating the Holocaust
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
If anything, visit for the Isenheim Altarpiece
The best backdrop President Obama ever had
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Yea, that's his real name
Great beard, better art
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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
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
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
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
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
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
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
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Provocative shadows
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Born to watch paint dry
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picasso fanboy
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
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
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
