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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
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No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Whodunnit??
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
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Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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