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Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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P-town Love
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Fierce!!
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Treasures around every corner
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
If looks could kill
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Feminist extraordinaire
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Stick it to The Man
An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
It’s all about the birds and the bees
A Bacchanal without Pollock
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Wifey wins
Just some student work
A trunk text from an ex
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Remember when Columbus kidnapped people to show them off?
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
The Powder of Sympathy
Some More Drama
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Her goddess superpowers come from her pruning tool
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Careful not to look crazy!
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Troublemaker!
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
A tender moment before mass murder
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Highly disturbing
Not at night and not very watchful
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
So get ready!
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
Light up the night!
Don’t eat it please.
Just what is going on here?
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Party like it's 1668
You've probably seen this everywhere
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Avada Kedavra
A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Rain on me
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The other Starry Night
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Anyone have a nail file?
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
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
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
USA's very first art school and museum
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Hippest place in Brighton
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
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
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Buy now on Taschen
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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/
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...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
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/
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...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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,...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
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...
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!? ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
