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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Oh say can you see
Careful, might make you howl!
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Hippest place in Brighton
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Give them to us raw and wriggling
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
A horse walks into a bar...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Considerable collections
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island 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
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Those Swiss have got it all!
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
USA's very first art school and museum
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Buy now on Taschen
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Hard cider is good
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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...
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
(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
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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/
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
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
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
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
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Their first curator added much of his own work
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Not just a bunch of books
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
The Latin LACMA
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*
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Not allowed to be political
This one’s for all the haters.
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
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Buy now on The Met Store
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
