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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Former tobacco plantation
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The Latin LACMA
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We exist in this space
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
O say can you see
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
The past is female
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Gothic tipi?
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Pre-bullets in the neck
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This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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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
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
