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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
An American hero who was probably into BDSM
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Like a post-apocalyptic NYC
Last gas in X miles
Modeled after a seventy-eight year old woman
Not to be confused with N'awlins
No vacancy at Bates Motel
Hopper was about that light
Just what is going on here?
Waiting on that free breakfast spread
A prostitute & a clown walk into a bar
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Stuck at home again
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
An artist of war
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Good old leopard-face
Superstar in his day, virtually unknown today
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Let his friends dissuade him from an honest religious life
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
That noise you make when you get punched in the stomach
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Based on personal observation
Disaster scene
Why make one when you can make 100?
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Whodunnit??
Once a girl scout, always a girl scout
Togas descending a staircase
“There, there. Don’t kill yourself.”
Sultry Mother Nature
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Deemed 'revolting, pornographic, and blasphemous' by the LA Board of Supervisors
Razzle dazzle warfare
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
"Sleep"
Rags-to-riches before it was cool
Romantic load of crap
Potato-filtered portrait
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Born to watch paint dry
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Obsessed with calligraphy
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Loves ants
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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
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
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Yea, that's his real name
Great beard, better art
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
She is goals
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Donuts for the people!
Nothing like your grandma
Works that body
Minimal man
Rising star
Not a sports guy
She's still Jenny from the Block
The VR star
Punched William Carlos Williams in the face
Museum as canvas
Not suitable for children
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
"Talent is cheap"
Nature collagist
I’m not Pop, you are.
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
"Fell" out of a 34th floor window during an argument
Screamer
One man's trash is this man's treasure
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
Obey!
The trickster
From ant watcher to artist
One of her shows got shut down by the police
Sculpted strange tableaux, and died too young.
When a fire starts to burn...she'll be there
Abracadabra!
She's a Jill of all trades
Old style, new subjects
So. Cool.
Show her your beach bod
Cute politico
Almost murderer
Like a hoarder, but with less of the mess
Of the so-called “fuck off generation” of Chinese artists
One Who Is Talented
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
Rock on Yves...
