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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
They're just like us!
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Oh say can you see
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
This little piggy went to the guggenheim
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
A Bacchanal without Pollock
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Don't panic, it's organic
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
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-...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Pucker up
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Meat blender
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
He's seen some stuff
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Careful, might make you howl!
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
What filter is that?
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Never forget
Tummy ache?
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Not your mother's art
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
Hippest place in Brighton
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Mining doesn’t cause death
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Considerable collections
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Those Swiss have got it all!
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice 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
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Watch now
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Take that Uncle Sam!
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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
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...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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
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
Buy now on Taschen
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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)
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
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
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
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Not just a bunch of books
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
The Latin LACMA
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
