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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It's only natural
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Oh say can you see
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Hippest place in Brighton
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Bringing the inside out
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Considerable collections
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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!
Reading rainbow
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Never forget
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Careful, might make you howl!
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Go Pirates
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
The world's most visited museum
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Oldest museum in the world
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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.
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Russian Ark
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Former tobacco plantation
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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!
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
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
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Not just a bunch of books
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
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...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Watch now
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The Latin LACMA
Take that Uncle Sam!
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
