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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
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Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Reading rainbow
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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Baby won’t you light my fire
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Stick it to The Man
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Surf's up, dude
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Critics poo-poo him
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Jesus has had enough!
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Deep, dark humor
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Never forget
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Ambassador Quintet
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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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...
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
