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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
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Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
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Frenemies
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Before they hated each other's guts
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A hotter mascot than the Pope
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
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French portrait inception
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
You wish you could be this cool
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Taking one for the team
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A mama's girl
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
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"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Long names and titles
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Is...that how you do it?
Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Not suitable for children
Matchy-matchy
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
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A teacher's nightmare
After 200 years we have the truth
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Not an itsy bitsy spider
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Conga line from hell
To kill a nightingale
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People should pay more attention to their walls
Calling all cynical pessimists!
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Portrait of a penis?
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If at first you don’t succeed, starve
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
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Foot fetish anyone?
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
Toilette humor
The girl who just wanted a bath
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Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Sweet baby Jesus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Special delivery
Beloved wife, sort of...
Can we get some privacy, please
Don't mess with this kid
Third time's the charm
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Crack that whip
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
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Couldn't have been a grocery list
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Mary Poppins?
Does it make you randy baby?
Cultural appropriation at its finest
Live easels
A cute outfit can't save you
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Bless your heart
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Girl crush
Sexy stocking stuffers
“No one will even see it…”
Stuff Rich People Own
One high-class whore
So get ready!
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Total poser
The past is female
Deep, dark humor
How times have changed...
From portraitist to executioner?
Mo money, mo problems
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Freaky families
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Don't call it a comeback
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Swirly girly
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
The ultimate cool beat chick
One wild and sexy lady
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings
Has a disease named after him
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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?
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
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
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
