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A place to be Seine
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Had a Chinatown family thing going on
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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
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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
Fancy a drink, sir?
Manet's BFF
“Viva la Mexico”
Women can’t be jockeys
“You don’t reject me, I reject you!”
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
It's like a painting, see?
Fake matador, real muse
Narrowly escaped the Nazis
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
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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...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Señor Sticky Fingers
Modernist Fantasia
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Manet could never
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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
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...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
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.
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Escaped beheading to hang out with a cat
or Picasso's, or Duchamp's, or de Kooning's
Southern Siamese slave-owners with sister wives
On again off again fake
Who doesn't love people watching in the afternoon?
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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....
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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? ...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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...
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...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
A bit stuck up, but painted the truth
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Degas meets Rob Zombie
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
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...
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...
