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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Made in a cabin
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Just another naked lady
Witness her
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
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...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
“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...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Hippest place in Brighton
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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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
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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/
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
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...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
