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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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....
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It's only natural
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Oh say can you see
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Hippest place in Brighton
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Made in a cabin
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Bringing the inside out
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Considerable collections
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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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!
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Reading rainbow
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Never forget
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Careful, might make you howl!
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Go Pirates
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
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
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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.
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
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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
Former tobacco plantation
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Not just a bunch of books
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
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
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Latin LACMA
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Take that Uncle Sam!
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Nature collagist
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Museums are F***ing Awesome
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
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Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Those Swiss have got it all!
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Danish, anyone?
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Commemorating the Holocaust
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
If anything, visit for the Isenheim Altarpiece
The best backdrop President Obama ever had
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Come rain, shine or Covid, it's always on display
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
So get ready!
