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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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Shoot first, ask questions later
“Viva os catadores!"
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Careful, might make you howl!
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
