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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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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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...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
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
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Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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.
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Singin’ in a ring
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...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Former tobacco plantation
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Bless your heart
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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....
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Hippest place in Brighton
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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
Buy now on Taschen
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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...
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...
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/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
X” Marks the Spot
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Their first curator added much of his own work
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Not just a bunch of books
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
