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The respiratory rose...might make you curl your toes
Roses not guns
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
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A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
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Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
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...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
