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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Proust's frenemy
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Gatsby eat your heart out
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No one will stand still!
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Just breathe
Once a good boy, always a good boy
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Photographer who thinks photography is stupid
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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Robert likes Ken
It's naht a tu-mah! It's his bicep!
Exes and nudie pics were a problem even before the internet
A crotch by any other name...
Think twice before your next wax
Waiting for the white angel
Hungry
“We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.” –RuPaul
Looking for Love
Ominous Silhouettes
Stuff Rich People Own
Tiny vulvas not tiny Volvos
Tattoo you
Nothing but net
Begging for bad karma
Upsetting
Colonel underpants
A little help from our friends
Olympia who?
The night is dark and full of terrors
Danger is her middle name
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Named after a muscle in the scrotum
Demons never looked so sexy
The bigger the hoops...
Best mom jeans
The weirdest kiss in art history
Legendary photo shoot
Not your average selfie
New art in the windy city
Cast yourself as a star!
It ain't easy bein' blonde
Bridezilla
Portrait of a penis?
Because screw your cultural norms
OUCH
Nature is awesome
BDSM much?
Who wouldn't look awkward?
Picture day
Sad and censored
Adam, Eve, and Molly
Brains and beauty
What makes her smile?
Photography, reality, and (polar) bears..oh my!
No boys allowed
Telekinesis never sounded so good
It's gonna be a full moon
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
Mamma can you hear me?
Valentine's Day in the X-Ray Machine
The Milky (chocolate) Way
Baller Jesus
Not so Plastic Pat
Bad girl kiki
Weems out
Middle fingers all around
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
Frida, the drag edition
Debi just hit the wall
That sass though
More like Louise LOLer
Too truisms
Standing guard
The Bowery, before it had a Whole Foods.
The Last Sitting
Bad dude in a tranquil moment
So about that American Dream…
Going up?
A man of mystery.
Not so great for shopping
The forgotten war
Should've left it under your mattress
When doors attack
Braved insane heights to snap the perfect pic.
The title says it all
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
The big Untitled
Cowboy take me away
Known as "the Little Magician"
Another unhappy ending
The man who made "dance 'till you drop" into an art form
Goddess of Pop
Peekaboo, I see you
Marilyn Morimura
Build me up, buttercup
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Picture perfect American naivete
But different
Pre-bullets in the neck
Heels were a bad choice
It's all an illusion
We don't know what it is, but we like it
Crazy hair, bombastic performance
Disappearing act
“Viva os catadores!"
I am Malala - with face tattoos?
But we must dress up, it’s the Renaissance Fair!
Maid with much passion...
The surface is all you've got
"Hyperreal"
Going after her friends’ poems
All booked up
Poor snek
New medium, who dis?
Carnation confrontation
I overdid it
Is this what you want?
Come and play with us
The spiritual gunshow
A violent piece of history
Curiouser and curiouser
Queen of comedy
Need a ride?
Atomic ghosts
Something here looks off
Black is beautiful
Seeing red
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Hey, Sista Sista
Basically the Matrix
Got milk?
The water's fine!
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Sir Shameless
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
