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This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
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
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Farmers loosing up
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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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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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Is...that how you do it?
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Light up the night!
Don’t eat it please.
Just what is going on here?
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Party like it's 1668
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Avada Kedavra
A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Rain on me
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Anyone have a nail file?
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
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It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
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The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm It craves...
