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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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No glove, no love
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Here comes “Wonderwall”
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Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
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Beer goggles gone wrong
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Welcome to the circus
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Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
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I do my hair toss, check my nails
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Go Pirates
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
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
All Vinny, all the time
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
All hail Andy Warhol!
Cooler than an Orange Julius
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
It's hammer time
A bathtub filled with art
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
Hannover: a nice place to visit
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
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
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Creepy child stare
Savage fashion
In the food court we trust
...but is it porn? If it's porn, it's scary porn
They really do fart rainbows
Modeled after a seventy-eight year old woman
Art is the pits
Just another one of Courbet's tricks
Science meets art meets racism
Penny for her thoughts
Here little darlin’, don’t shed no tears.
Deconstruction of the boob
Mirror mirror on the wall
La Indigenista
Old woman, old school
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
The world's most visited museum
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
Oldest museum in the world
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Hippest place in Brighton
Created as part of the New Deal
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
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...?
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Great art in the windy city
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Old museum, old dudes
Art on the walls and in the toilets
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Treasures around every corner
Foot fetish anyone?
Crack that whip
This story is juicy
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Oh so sad
"Femme aux Fagots" in French
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Family life in the circus can be in'tents'
RBF, a clinical diagnosis
From one museum to another
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Ma’am, your folds are showing
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Toilette humor
Literacy for women FTW
Pay attention to the peonies
A big old brouhaha
A tale of two testicles?
One of our favorites in DC
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Considerable collections
Doctor Who is here a lot
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Russian Ark
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Hatscarves rule
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
The one with pants
Friend of an art (not drug) dealer
You spin me right round, baby, right round
Sexism sucks
This woman don’t need no man
Hillary Clinton saw it and said #relatable
Loneliness in the city
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Glamorous like Fergie
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Where he got his start
We don't know much…
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Underground in the City of Angels
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Former tobacco plantation
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Can you spot the fakes?
Not a one trick pony
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Saved in times of war
Couldn't have been a grocery list
Who is she?
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Girl crush
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Just painting a friend’s mistress here…
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
A treasure trove of gold
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This is what domestic bliss looked like in 1658
Mary Poppins?
Live easels
Dreaming in Harlem
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Funky art in the heart of farm country
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Sexy stocking stuffers
The Latin LACMA
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Ditch the myth, keep the sex
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Museums are F***ing Awesome
A stiff upper lip
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
