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Paint me like one of your fruit baskets
Better at organizing festivals than Ja Rule
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
Art of decay
The flaming allegory
To every thing there is a season
"Man is a whole world of its own..."
Arcimboldo humiliates a coworker
Don't judge a book by the cover...or face
Why’d you have to be so crudité?
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Went from rags to riches and made Caravaggio paint fruit.
Say my name, say my name
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Best thing since pumpkin spice
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Buy now on Amazon
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Not as mystical as it seems
Must love horses
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Why does Actaeon look just like Ted Nugent?
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Raised by snark. Steeped in art.
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
