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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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For the purposes of our faith
Has computer controlled lamps giving nearly shadowless light
Punched William Carlos Williams in the face
We don't look good until you look good
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A sweet guy
Shipping included
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I’ll have what he’s painting, please
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No dictator left behind...?
He really, really likes rabbits ok?
A very bloody wedding
Bye, Felicia
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Hatscarves rule
Actually, she likes this portrait
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It all ended badly for Charles
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They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Get ready for the waterworks
Not your average portraiture
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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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!
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Saint Selfie
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Bad dude in a tranquil moment
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Go Pirates
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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
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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
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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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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!
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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
One of our favorites in DC
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
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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
The abnormally happy couple
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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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
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
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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!
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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
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Bless your heart
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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
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The Latin LACMA
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The off-broadway version of “Fiddler on the Roof”
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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Museums are F***ing Awesome
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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So get ready!
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Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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Danish, anyone?
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
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One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
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The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
