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Bringing Austria and Germany to the States
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Stuck at home again
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
At the bottom of the sea
Way better than the Old Britain museum
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Disappearing act
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
You're never going to find Waldo
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
A little help from our friends
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Bratwurst and museums just don't mix
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Unchanged since 1918
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San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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!
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
Need a ride?
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Swastikas were ok at the time
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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
Come and play with us
A tell-all title
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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
Come one, come all
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
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
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Latin LACMA
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
She's a Jill of all trades
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Sir Shameless
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Museums are F***ing Awesome
Once Punched a Skeleton
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Danish, anyone?
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Careful, might make you howl!
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Come rain, shine or Covid, it's always on display
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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 ...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
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Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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So get ready!
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...
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The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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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...
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Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
