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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
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Crack that whip
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I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings
Has a disease named after him
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Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
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This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
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