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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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Topsy turvy
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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Togas descending a staircase
Damaged goods
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Kitchen Scene, part 1
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
Click here for love potion recipe
Avada Kedavra
Pool party
Manet could never
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Careful, might make you howl!
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Urban anxiety aplenty
Cut him off!
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
A bargain at twice the price
Three guys walk into a bar...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Never forget
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Hippest place in Brighton
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Considerable collections
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Watch now
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Take that Uncle Sam!
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Buy now on Taschen
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
