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Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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1,2,3 Kick!
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Three faces, almost the same life
I can paint AND take photos
Don't mess with this kid
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This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
