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The seat of the United States Congress
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
A gift to the Nation
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
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
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Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Get elevated
Island in the Plains
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Modern Indian masters
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
The floor is lava
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Wearing a vest of many colors
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Buy now on The Met Store
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The land of breast milk and honey
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Who run the world? Girls!
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Doctor Who is here a lot
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Made in a cabin
A treasure trove of gold
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Was the Medici's office building
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
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....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Saved by a princess
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
What is the meaning of life?
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Buy now on Taschen
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
New medium, who dis?
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Not everyone's photogenic
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Nature is awesome
Portrait-ception
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Hey big spender
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Fancy birthday presents
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The penis is v. important in this one
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
thump-thump thump-thump
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
Not accurate
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
A mystery lady
Magic mirror on the wall
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
What filter is that?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
Paint with all seven fingers
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
No more drinkie
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
The spirit of Caesar
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
That other pandemic
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
Actually, she likes this portrait
#MeToo circa 1600
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
