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At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Good wine and interesting art
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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Has a room lined with 440 pounds of beeswax
Heartless business man shows he has a heart
Beyoncé and Jay-Z spent Mother's Day here in 2016
Collection of some bed-hopping Brits!
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Tuna buys a lot of art
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Crackpot
It really does look like a warehouse on the outside!
Peggy and her dogs are buried on site
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
All About the Combines Baby
Burglary in a Swiss Villa
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
An alternate title might have been "reverse mermaid" (Maidmer?)
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
A clean sweep for David Ireland
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
You really can get a happy meal anywhere nowadays
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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
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
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
USA's very first art school and museum
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hippest place in Brighton
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
No dictator left behind...?
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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
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:...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
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
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
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...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Considerable collections
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Latin LACMA
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
