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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Part one of two!
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“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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P-town Love
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Just another naked lady
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The Milky (chocolate) Way
“Viva os catadores!"
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
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Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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