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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sigmund Freud's grandson, a mega womanizer who also liked to drink and fight
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A hot mess
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NOT hakuna matata
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Carnage above facts
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When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Drunk on the job
Titania sleeping, Oberon creeping
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Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
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Cupid's a latchkey kid
Another painting of Venus on break
A two for one deal
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Rinaldo can’t keep it in his pants
"Sleep"
Gay as a moonbeam
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
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Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
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The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
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Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
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The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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’...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
