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All Vinny, all the time
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Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
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She loves me… She loves me not…
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Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
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A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
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Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Too turnt
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Hatscarves rule
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
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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
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
USA's very first art school and museum
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
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Hippest place in Brighton
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
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
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
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
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
