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Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
She's different
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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You betta werk!
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Drawing class from hell
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Singin’ in a ring
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
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
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
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
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
USA's very first art school and museum
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
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...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Hippest place in Brighton
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
