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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
A gift to the Nation
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Hippest place in Brighton
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
Buy now on Amazon
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Modern Indian masters
Buy now on The Met Store
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
The most picturesque corner of Venice
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
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Great Scott!
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Was the Medici's office building
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"
Anonymous strikes again
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Get elevated
Saved by a princess
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Big-time First Lady
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
To the Earl goes the spoils
Three's company
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Getting ready to jam
Fashionista
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Sexy kinda
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Flashing all that bling bling
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Quit your squawking
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
A Full-Bodied Rise, and Fall, to Fame
Not so Plastic Pat
She's a man eater
You talkin’ to me?
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
Hey, Sista Sista
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
#MILF
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Taking one for the team
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Sister sister
Mo money, mo problems
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Hey big spender
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Just another beheading. Yawn
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Fancy birthday presents
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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...?
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Buy now on Taschen
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
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
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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
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
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
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...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Careful, might make you howl!
Their first curator added much of his own work
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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!? ...
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."
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
A treasure trove of gold
