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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Way better than the Old Britain museum
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
Used to be a palace, v. chic
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Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
Unchanged since 1918
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Mining doesn’t cause death
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Stuck at home again
Need a ride?
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Swastikas were ok at the time
At the bottom of the sea
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
A little help from our friends
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
USA's very first art school and museum
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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
Free museums for the win
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Hippest place in Brighton
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
scorpiondagger: (david hockney) CANNONBALL! A Bigger Splash by David Hockney We...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
