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Sculpting Empire
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
The presidential bristles
Buy now on The Met Store
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
A gift to the Nation
Aye laddy...
Come and say g'day
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
In the Athens of Australia
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Great Scott!
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
Made in a cabin
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Was the Medici's office building
Wearing a vest of many colors
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!
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Saved by a princess
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Buy now on Amazon
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Modern Indian masters
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
The perils of flirting on a boat
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Hey big spender
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Fancy birthday presents
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Armchair tourism pays off
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
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...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Protecting Catholicism since 1609
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
