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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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
A good man in a messed up world
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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...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
You betta werk!
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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!
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Too little too late!
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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...
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...
Singin’ in a ring
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
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...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
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...
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...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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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...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
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
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
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....
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
USA's very first art school and museum
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Hippest place in Brighton
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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/
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
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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...
X” Marks the Spot
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....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Not just a bunch of books
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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 ...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
Funky art in the heart of farm country
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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
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Took pix of misfits
Photog to the stars
But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!
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
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
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
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
