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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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So get ready!
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Sicker than your average muse...literally
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Picture perfect American naivete
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
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“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
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A painter's lost dream on antiquity
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If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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