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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Freud was involved
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
People should pay more attention to their walls
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
A spiritual about-face
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Go Pirates
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Long names and titles
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s 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
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Oldest museum in the world
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
