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“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Could really hold a grudge
Literal love child
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
I just want to do something personal
One high-class whore
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
It’s all about perspective
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The only good reason to join a cult
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Baby won’t you light my fire
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Nothin' but the nasty
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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Cupid, you are being gross
Shot through the heart
Venus and Cupid experiment with golden showers
The most malicious cherub you'll ever meet
Stuck in the asphalt with you
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Cupid's a latchkey kid
Click here for post-coital cuddles
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Love or hate?
Step right up!
Morning in mid-Montmartre
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
Hubba hubba
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Ring around the rosie
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
On again off again fake
Married the model
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Sisters before mistresses
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Too truisms
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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The greatest sacrifice
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
J.K. Rowling couldn't make this stuff up.
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Disaster art or disaster artist?
Trash to treasure
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Dude loved his dots
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
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Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Sir Shameless
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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*
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
