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Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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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
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
USA's very first art school and museum
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Hippest place in Brighton
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Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
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Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
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Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Considerable collections
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Funky art in the heart of farm country
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