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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
So get ready!
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Vintage illumination for all your best photo ops
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Obsessed with trees
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Witch orgy prep
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America’s playground
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!
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
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
Bring a hankie
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
Experience infinity in one minute
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
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It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
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
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
Russian Ark
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The Latin LACMA
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Careful, might make you howl!
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Danish, anyone?
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
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Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Come rain, shine or Covid, it's always on display
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
