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Too cool for New Zealand
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Outsider
Red is the coldest color
Washington’s premier color-field frat
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Illustrated children's books to pay the rent
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Wearing a vest of many colors
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
An orchestra of orcas?
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
The Sun King
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
We want the Funk
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Maybe the Italians made fun of his height?
In the middle of a hottie sandwich
Duty or love – Can’t a prince have both?
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Pre-bullets in the neck
Tummy ache?
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
Gay as a moonbeam
A cute outfit can't save you
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
From portraitist to executioner?
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
A burn too sick for the ER
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The penis is v. important in this one
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Inventor of the Snapshot
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
