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Awesomely bizarre. Claimed he never tried gay sex because he assumed "it hurts"
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Inspired by a cheese plate
We have an idea for a new iPhone case
Mysterious lady
Thoughts on trippiness
Out with Plato, in with Freud
Surreal Home Makeover
A very weird rock
Dali had lots of desires, some of them liquid
Not all temptations are equally tempting
Freud was involved
Was it all a dream?
How's the air up there?
Dali's double images
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The long-legged elephant in the room
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Made in a cabin
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak 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!
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young 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...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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
Oldest museum in the world
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Russian Ark
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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!
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
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
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
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The Latin LACMA
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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’...
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,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Museums are F***ing Awesome
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
