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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Criticizing the critics
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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!
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...?
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
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hippest place in Brighton
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Love and other bulls%!#
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Considerable collections
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
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
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Former tobacco plantation
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Bad and Boujee
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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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
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
A treasure trove of gold
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
The Latin LACMA
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Viagra was the duke's only wish
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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 best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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!
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Go Pirates
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Oldest museum in the world
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
The world's most visited museum
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
One of our favorites in DC
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Treasures around every corner
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Not a one trick pony
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
A gift to the Nation
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Has a cool grand staircase
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
Free museums for the win
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
USA's very first art school and museum
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
