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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
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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...
Hallelujah!
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The Latin LACMA
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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Botticelli grows old and violent
Just another pervy kid in Paris
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
Not allowed to be political
Check it out, bro!
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Anyone bring any napkins?
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Witness her
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Three guys walk into a bar...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
O say can you see
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Everyone has a goth phase
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
The past is female
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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Gothic tipi?
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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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
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Pre-bullets in the neck
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
