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Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
Who run the world? Girls!
Doctor Who is here a lot
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Danish, anyone?
A gift to the Nation
Come and say g'day
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Island in the Plains
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Aye laddy...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
Buy now on Amazon
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Made in a cabin
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...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Get elevated
Wearing a vest of many colors
Modern Indian masters
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
What is the meaning of life?
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Buy now on The Met Store
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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!
The world's most visited museum
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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.
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Oldest museum in the world
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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
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
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
One of our favorites in DC
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Take that Uncle Sam!
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Considerable collections
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
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Russian Ark
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Nature is awesome
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
Funky art in the heart of farm country
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The penis is v. important in this one
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
The Latin LACMA
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Careful, might make you howl!
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
