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A gift to the Nation
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Get elevated
Buy now on Amazon
Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Island in the Plains
Buy now on The Met Store
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Who run the world? Girls!
Doctor Who is here a lot
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Was the Medici's office building
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
What is the meaning of life?
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The perils of flirting on a boat
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Take that Uncle Sam!
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Nature is awesome
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hey big spender
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Fancy birthday presents
The penis is v. important in this one
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Careful, might make you howl!
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
