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Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Motor city
It's free, not cheap
Great art in the windy city
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Made in a cabin
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Wearing a vest of many colors
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Slightly psychedelic
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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
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
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
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
A gift to the Nation
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
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:...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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!
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
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Hippest place in Brighton
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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/
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...
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,...
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
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...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
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...
Their first curator added much of his own work
