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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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Late Bloomers Rejoice
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
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
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
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
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
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...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Russian Ark
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Former tobacco plantation
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Latin LACMA
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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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...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
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The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Danish, anyone?
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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