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The seat of the United States Congress
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
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Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Can you spot the fakes?
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
A treasure trove of gold
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The floor is lava
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Love and other bulls%!#
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The land of breast milk and honey
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
Bad and Boujee
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Viagra was the duke's only wish
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Criticizing the critics
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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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!
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
New medium, who dis?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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
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
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
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
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Former tobacco plantation
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Island in the Plains
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!
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
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The Latin LACMA
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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…..
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Lest we forget
‘MURICA
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
