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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
Life in Iowa sucks
Technicolor dreams
A trunk text from an ex
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...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Made in a cabin
I overdid it
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Gothic tipi?
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Buy now on Amazon
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
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
In the Athens of Australia
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
This museum is worth A-GO
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
A gift to the Nation
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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
Who run the world? Girls!
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
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Hippest place in Brighton
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Buy now on Taschen
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
