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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
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Probably banged your girlfriend
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Egyptians walk, not fly!
Victorians complain, no one’s surprised
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
Paint-ception
The one that got away
Rethinking calling their Armada unsinkable
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
Who needs shirts?
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Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
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President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
