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I'm a survivor
Prado, not Prada
Saved from Napoleon
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Too much sexy time made this the last of the Raphaels
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it
The fifth ninja turtle
Drama, drama, drama
Replaced prisoners with artwork
Buy now on Amazon
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The only straight Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Party-going friar
She’s not like other Virgins
Maybe don't murder your family
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Old faced baby Jesus
Like a virgin. Touched for the first and last time.
Innovation
Luscious locks reveal a lot!
We dont need no education
The blonde Raphael?
The nap knight
The Pope who partied
More than a sidechick
Made in a cabin
A tale of two testicles?
Bad mommy
Mother knows best
Where my girls at?
Wearing a vest of many colors
Stolen, found, but not returned
Sylvester Stallone on a step ladder
They really do fart rainbows
Badass librarian suffers death by mule
The warrior pope
growing up fast
The original King of Cool
The beautiful gardener of babies
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Should've left it under your mattress
Here for a good time, not a long time
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Middle finger rises
Million Dollar Baby Jesus
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
Protection money being handed over; the Pope who pays gets to watch
One of many Pietas
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Check out that window
No, the other Madonna
Watch now
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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:...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Prepared the decorations for Michelangelo's funeral
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Not yet halo-worthy
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...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
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...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
