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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
So get ready!
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Vintage illumination for all your best photo ops
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Warning: this painting may cause extreme déjà vu
Obsessed with trees
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
America’s playground
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Witch orgy prep
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!
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Bring a hankie
Go Pirates
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Experience infinity in one minute
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
Oldest museum in the world
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
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...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Treasures around every corner
One of our favorites in DC
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Russian Ark
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Former tobacco plantation
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The Latin LACMA
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
