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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
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Modern Indian masters
Great Scott!
Buy now on Amazon
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Get elevated
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
Who run the world? Girls!
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
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Island in the Plains
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Buy now on The Met Store
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Was the Medici's office building
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
What is the meaning of life?
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Careful, might make you howl!
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The perils of flirting on a boat
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Nature is awesome
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Hey big spender
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
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...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Fancy birthday presents
The penis is v. important in this one
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
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
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
My heart is in Havana
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
“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...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
USA's very first art school and museum
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
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
