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Had a Chinatown family thing going on
Fancy a drink, sir?
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Mamaaaaaaa
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
The artist's favorite colleague
Lots of things can happen in a conservatory
Yes, hat shop brothels are a thing
Freshman english class flashbacks
Put me on the IMAX screen.
Naughty nana
Bless thy neighbor
*Spoiler* Dumbledore dies
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Killed by a roofer using a flue
You don't picnic in the buff?
Who's there?
Stealing glances, quite literally
Latte two sugars, please
Spring is here! Tra-la-li, tra-la-la
$1,000 on She’s a Diamond
Star pupil
Manet's BFF
A place to be Seine
“Viva la Mexico”
Women can’t be jockeys
“You don’t reject me, I reject you!”
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Fake matador, real muse
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Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
Narrowly escaped the Nazis
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...
Señor Sticky Fingers
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Quick-change artist
Making fun of puritanical ideals
Crack open a cold one
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Cut him off!
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Quilting’s easy… if you’re a genius
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Escaped beheading to hang out with a cat
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
or Picasso's, or Duchamp's, or de Kooning's
Southern Siamese slave-owners with sister wives
On again off again fake
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Who doesn't love people watching in the afternoon?
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Off the wall
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
A bit stuck up, but painted the truth
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Degas meets Rob Zombie
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
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
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
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,...
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...
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...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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...
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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
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...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
“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...
