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A gift to the Nation
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
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
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
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
Modern Indian masters
Buy now on Amazon
Great Scott!
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Get elevated
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Who run the world? Girls!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Posher than Posh and Becks
Island in the Plains
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Buy now on The Met Store
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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....
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Was the Medici's office building
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
What is the meaning of life?
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Careful, might make you howl!
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement 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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Take that Uncle Sam!
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Nature is awesome
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Hey big spender
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
My heart is in Havana
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The penis is v. important in this one
Fancy birthday presents
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
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...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
USA's very first art school and museum
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Buy now on Taschen
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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...
Former tobacco plantation
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Considerable collections
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Their first curator added much of his own work
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
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...
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,...
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
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...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
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...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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...
