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If at first you don’t succeed, starve
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Matchy-matchy
A+ escape plan
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Enjoy the view, Actaeon
Pregnant!
Quick-change artist
Plop a teabag in your mug
A teacher's nightmare
Making dog food
Sup ladies?
This definitely happened
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
To kill a nightingale
It came back positive
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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Taking one for the team
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Extroverted Introvert
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
