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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Filmic Fabric of a People
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Graphic or 'libertine'?
Everyone likes a mysterious girl
The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Varicose veins. They'll happen to you, too!
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
It's ok to be king
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for 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
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
USA's very first art school and museum
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Hippest place in Brighton
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of 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...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Considerable collections
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Not just a bunch of books
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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."
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
