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Who run the world? Girls!
Doctor Who is here a lot
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Danish, anyone?
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
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Island in the Plains
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Aye laddy...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
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
Great Scott!
Buy now on Amazon
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Get elevated
Modern Indian masters
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
What is the meaning of life?
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Buy now on The Met Store
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The world's most visited museum
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!
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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.
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Man of many hats
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Go Pirates
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
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Oldest museum in the world
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Hippest place in Brighton
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
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
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Considerable collections
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
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Russian Ark
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Nature is awesome
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
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
The penis is v. important in this one
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Latin LACMA
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Careful, might make you howl!
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Museums are F***ing Awesome
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
