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If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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...
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....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Made in a cabin
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Wearing a vest of many colors
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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USA's very first art school and museum
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
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Hippest place in Brighton
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
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Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
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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/
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
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...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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…...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
