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The seat of the United States Congress
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
Buy now on Amazon
Aye laddy...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Danish, anyone?
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Island in the Plains
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Get elevated
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Modern Indian masters
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Used to be a palace, v. chic
The floor is lava
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Wearing a vest of many colors
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
Buy now on The Met Store
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The land of breast milk and honey
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
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
Who run the world? Girls!
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Made in a cabin
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
A treasure trove of gold
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
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....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Was the Medici's office building
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Saved by a princess
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
What is the meaning of life?
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Buy now on Taschen
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
New medium, who dis?
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Not everyone's photogenic
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Take that Uncle Sam!
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Portrait-ception
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
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,...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
