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Happy wife happy life!
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!
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Buy now on Amazon
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Buy now on The Met Store
Modern Indian masters
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
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
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!
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Was the Medici's office building
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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...
Big-time First Lady
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
To the Earl goes the spoils
Three's company
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...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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
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...
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....
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
“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...
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
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
The perils of flirting on a boat
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...
#MILF
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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,...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Taking one for the team
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
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Sister sister
Mo money, mo problems
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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...
Hey big spender
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Just another beheading. Yawn
young, sexy, and rich
Can't hide a prostitute
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
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...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Fancy birthday presents
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
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-...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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 ...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’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
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...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
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
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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
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 week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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
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...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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.
Careful, might make you howl!
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The Latin LACMA
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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...
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...
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
“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
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...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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."
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
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...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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...
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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...
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....
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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...
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...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
