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Kind of a hodge podge collection plus Salvator Mundi
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
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
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
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
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
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...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Russian Ark
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
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
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Former tobacco plantation
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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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
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Careful, might make you howl!
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Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
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Funky art in the heart of farm country
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The Latin LACMA
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
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Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
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Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
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Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
So get ready!
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
