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Movies would have you believe he could pierce the hell out of an ear
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Giant Swastika on the back
Who caught Vermeer in the act?
Got milk?
Sew talented
A little date-rapey for our taste
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
How long do I have to hold this pose?
Hitler's jam
Stolen for the nicest reasons
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
No teardrops on this guitar
All about the yellow jacket
Sleepin' on the job
Getting ready to jam
Scarlett Johansson reallllly liked getting her ear pierced
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
She's so not into you
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Serious hat envy
Here comes “Wonderwall”
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Can we get some privacy, please
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Liked polygamy and a nice chianti
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
Couldn't have been a grocery list
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The original queen of photomontage
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,...
Professor Painting right here
Drawn to the dark side
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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 Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...