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Will the real Cindy Sherman please stand up?
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Mamma can you hear me?
Debi just hit the wall
Got milk?
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
No boys allowed
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...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
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
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
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...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
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...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
