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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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So get ready!
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
