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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
A good swattin’
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
We dont need no education
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
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
In the Athens of Australia
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
This museum is worth A-GO
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
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
USA's very first art school and museum
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
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
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Hippest place in Brighton
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Buy now on Taschen
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
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
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
Those Swiss have got it all!
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The Latin LACMA
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
