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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Criticizing the critics
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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