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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Expanded in 2016!
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Big, very, very big. Huge
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
Has computer controlled lamps giving nearly shadowless light
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Take the easy way out and make some money
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Can’t touch this
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The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
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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
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
USA's very first art school and museum
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Hippest place in Brighton
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
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
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
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
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Considerable collections
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
A French-Japanese collaboration
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
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...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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
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The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
Funky art in the heart of farm country
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What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
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...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
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
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
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...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
