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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Motor city
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Love and other bulls%!#
What will Tim do now that he's making the big bucks?
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Leonardo who?
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
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This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Is there a doctor in the house?
Used to patch a chicken coop
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
We dont need no education
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Slightly psychedelic
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Rethinking calling their Armada unsinkable
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
BFF's til the end
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Your capitalism is showing
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
So we beat on, boats against the current
Making fun of puritanical ideals
I don’t want no wants
Big empire, bigger ego
No need to fear when sleep is here
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
Haunted horse
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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
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
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
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
A gift to the Nation
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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!
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
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Failure to sell
Not for acrophobes
A great painter's quest away from painting
It’s electric!
It's gonna blow!
Jesus has had enough!
A spiritual about-face
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Hippest place in Brighton
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Ghostwood
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
