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A gift to the Nation
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
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
Modern Indian masters
Buy now on Amazon
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Get elevated
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
Who run the world? Girls!
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Hippest place in Brighton
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Island in the Plains
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Buy now on The Met Store
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Doctor Who is here a lot
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Made in a cabin
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Was the Medici's office building
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
What is the meaning of life?
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Careful, might make you howl!
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The perils of flirting on a boat
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...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Take that Uncle Sam!
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Nature is awesome
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Hey big spender
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Fancy birthday presents
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The penis is v. important in this one
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
My heart is in Havana
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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
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
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Former tobacco plantation
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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
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
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Latin LACMA
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...
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...
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
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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
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...
