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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Witness her
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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:...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...