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Look at art a little longer
You can call him "Good Time Sandy"
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
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What is this? A circus for ants?!
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The eagle that played hot potato
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It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The imaginary third vase
You say you want a revolution
honestly pretty vanilla
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
One Who Is Talented
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
You've got a friend in me
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Like you, when you're cranky
Another unhappy ending
Badass portrait painter
Act spontaneous!
Four Rothkos, One Bench
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
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It's like a painting, see?
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Nigeria, spirited away
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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The ten-dollar Founding Father
All-powerful, magical being
A Bieber tattoo
Did you say REDRUM?
On the outside looking in
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
“You’re blocking my light”
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
Art thieves caught red handed
No bra days are the best days
Playing dress up
As advertised
It really ties the room together
When your make-up artist at Sephora is secretly an expressionist
Good riddance to the haterz...and the Pharaoh
Serious hat envy
Give up the boot
Something here looks off
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Mary's big bro
The ineffective president
Paint me like one of your classmates
The bachelor president
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Slightly psychedelic
Urban anxiety aplenty
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Accidental POTUS
Alexander's not so well
More like Honest Babe
Telekinesis never sounded so good
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Mi concubine es su concubine!
Careful not to look crazy!
Choo choo twain
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Rage-inducing abstraction
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
I want to paint it black
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
An artist of war
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Possible peace portrait
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
But I'm talking 'bout Shaft!
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
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As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
