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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
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Would you like a wall to go with that ceiling?
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Not at night and not very watchful
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Judgment day is apparently going to involve some perverted violence
Didn’t something used to roam around here?
Party like it’s 1639
Not your mama’s last supper
Light up the night!
Don’t eat it please.
Just what is going on here?
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
A subtle reminder about eternity
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Party like it's 1668
You've probably seen this everywhere
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Avada Kedavra
A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Your capitalism is showing
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Rain on me
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
So we beat on, boats against the current
Making fun of puritanical ideals
I don’t want no wants
Big empire, bigger ego
No need to fear when sleep is here
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The other Starry Night
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Anyone have a nail file?
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
Haunted horse
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Failure to sell
Not for acrophobes
A great painter's quest away from painting
It’s electric!
It's gonna blow!
Jesus has had enough!
A spiritual about-face
(You Drive Me) Crazy
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
USA's very first art school and museum
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Hippest place in Brighton
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
BFF's til the end
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war