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Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Sadly, still relevant
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Filmic Fabric of a People
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Graphic or 'libertine'?
Everyone likes a mysterious girl
The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Varicose veins. They'll happen to you, too!
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
It's ok to be king
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
USA's very first art school and museum
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Hippest place in Brighton
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
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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...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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 the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Latin LACMA
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
