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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
A gift to the Nation
Buy now on Amazon
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Hippest place in Brighton
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Modern Indian masters
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Buy now on The Met Store
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
The most picturesque corner of Venice
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
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Used to be a palace, v. chic
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Made in a cabin
Great Scott!
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Was the Medici's office building
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Saved by a princess
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
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...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Hey big spender
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Fancy birthday presents
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
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
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
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
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
