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Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
A gift to the Nation
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
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I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Get elevated
Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Island in the Plains
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Who run the world? Girls!
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Doctor Who is here a lot
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Was the Medici's office building
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Saved by a princess
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
What is the meaning of life?
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Not everyone's photogenic
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Nature is awesome
Portrait-ception
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Hey big spender
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
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The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...