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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Freud was involved
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
People should pay more attention to their walls
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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!
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
A spiritual about-face
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Go Pirates
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Long names and titles
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Oldest museum in the world
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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 didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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
COTTON EYED JOE
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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!
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
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
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
The Latin LACMA
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
So get ready!
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
