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MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Expanded in 2016!
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Big, very, very big. Huge
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
Has computer controlled lamps giving nearly shadowless light
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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:...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Take the easy way out and make some money
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Can’t touch this
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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
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
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
USA's very first art school and museum
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Hippest place in Brighton
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
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
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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/
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
A French-Japanese collaboration
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
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.
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
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."
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
