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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
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Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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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...
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The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
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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...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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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...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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...
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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...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
