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But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...

So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

Poor Jesus

It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...

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Orphans leave the nest

birth control or Bible stories?

The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...

Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...

A journalistic painting of WWII

Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...

At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

Not so Plastic Pat

Careful, might make you howl!

Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...

As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...

Not your mother's art

How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...

Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...

Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...

As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…

SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...

Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...

It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...

Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...

The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...

Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...

Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...

Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...

It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...

In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

  Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....

Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...

Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...

If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....

We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...

  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...

Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...

Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...

Fashion Alert!  Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...

  One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...

Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...

This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...

The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...

*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...

Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...

  Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...

Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...

  It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...

Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...

Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...

As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...

Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw   It's an old Greek word shot into...

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...

You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....

You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...

We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...

  What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...

Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...

Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...

Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...

It's St. Patrick's Day!  And while we all may be Irish today, these...

Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...

What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!  It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...

“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...

There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...

President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...

This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...

Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...

Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...

The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...

In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...

This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...

Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.

  One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...

We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...

One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...

Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...

Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...

Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...

What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...

  Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...

The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...

Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...

It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...

It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...

In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...

Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...

Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...

Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...

If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...

Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...