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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Singin’ in a ring
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Never forget
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
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Hippest place in Brighton
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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Considerable collections
Those Swiss have got it all!
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Watch now
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
USA's very first art school and museum
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
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
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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 music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Former tobacco plantation
