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Brand spankin' new!
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Former tobacco plantation
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Latin LACMA
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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
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 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
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Who run the world? Girls!
Has a lot of money to throw around
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
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Hippest place in Brighton
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Considerable collections
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Come one, come all
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Rebel in pantaloons
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Can you spot the fakes?
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Not just a bunch of books
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Made in a cabin
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
A treasure trove of gold
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Wearing a vest of many colors
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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!
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
O say can you see
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
All Vinny, all the time
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
All hail Andy Warhol!
A bathtub filled with art
Hannover: a nice place to visit
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Go Pirates
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Oldest museum in the world
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The world's most visited museum
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Old museum, old dudes
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
One of our favorites in DC
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Treasures around every corner
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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
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.
Russian Ark
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Doctor Who is here a lot
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The past is female
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...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Not a one trick pony
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Gothic tipi?
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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...
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
This museum is worth A-GO
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
A gift to the Nation
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
