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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
A good man in a messed up world
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
You betta werk!
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 Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
God save the Queen!
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Too little too late!
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Singin’ in a ring
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Hippest place in Brighton
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Buy now on Taschen
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
X” Marks the Spot
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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/
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Took pix of misfits
Photog to the stars
But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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,...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Buy now on The Met Store
Funky art in the heart of farm country
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
