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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
A gift to the Nation
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Hippest place in Brighton
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Modern Indian masters
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Great Scott!
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Was the Medici's office building
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Saved by a princess
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Hey big spender
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
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
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
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
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Fancy birthday presents
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
USA's very first art school and museum
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...?
Great art in the windy city
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
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Buy now on Taschen
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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
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
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Considerable collections
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
