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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
A gift to the Nation
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Who run the world? Girls!
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A good swattin’
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Island in the Plains
Aye laddy...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Danish, anyone?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Careful, might make you howl!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Great Scott!
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Doctor Who is here a lot
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Get elevated
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We dont need no education
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What is the meaning of life?
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Take that Uncle Sam!
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Nature is awesome
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The penis is v. important in this one
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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
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
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
My heart is in Havana
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
USA's very first art school and museum
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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
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
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Hippest place in Brighton
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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
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
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Former tobacco plantation
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
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
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
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-...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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
