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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Former tobacco plantation
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The Latin LACMA
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
We exist in this space
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Made in a cabin
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Wearing a vest of many colors
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
O say can you see
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The past is female
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Gothic tipi?
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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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...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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-...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
USA's very first art school and museum
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
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
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Hippest place in Brighton
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Buy now on Taschen
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
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!
Come one, come all
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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/
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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
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 baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Considerable collections
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
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
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
