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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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,...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Careful, might make you howl!
Oh say can you see
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Hippest place in Brighton
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Give them to us raw and wriggling
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
A horse walks into a bar...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Considerable collections
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Those Swiss have got it all!
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
USA's very first art school and museum
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
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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Hard cider is good
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
