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Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
