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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
More like sweating at noon
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Couldn't catch a break
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
No laurels here
Road trip for baby Jesus
Walt Whitman was a fan
Back pain = youth leaving the body
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Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
The Realist in the game
Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Old maids reminiscing
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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
P-town Love
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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
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
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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...
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
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
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
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Milky (chocolate) Way
“Viva os catadores!"
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Upsetting
Marilyn Morimura
Don't ask him to make copies
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Or do worry, I'm a sign, not a cop
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Criticizing the critics
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In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Your capitalism is showing
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
Haunted horse
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ghostwood
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
That's Master Richard to you!
Everyone has a goth phase
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Atomic ghosts
Gothic tipi?
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
He's wicked...wicked hot
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
An atheist makes a chapel where you’re NOT allowed to pray
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
COTTON EYED JOE
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
X” Marks the Spot
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Multi-use materials
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
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As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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