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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants
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A real O.G.
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Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
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The Sun King
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Please paint in my absent angry mother
Suicide mission with the fam-bam
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Agamemnon's Jedi mind tricks
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We want the Funk
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
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Tummy ache?
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Gay as a moonbeam
A cute outfit can't save you
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Pre-bullets in the neck
From portraitist to executioner?
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A burn too sick for the ER
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The penis is v. important in this one
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Inventor of the Snapshot
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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