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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Paint-ception
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Bankers and homeless people sit separately
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Men react to the friendzone
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Five museums for the price of one
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
A colorful feast
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Villainous Treachery
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Gimme those pearls
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It’s all about perspective
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Suspicious lack of togas
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Fashion hunny
Must love horses
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
No, your kid could not have painted this
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Singin’ in a ring
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
Watch now
Squares are people too
More than just delicious desserts
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Gore, guts, and great shoes
TGIF
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
It’s electric!
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Upsetting
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
I'll have what she's having
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
