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Dreamed of a large Lincoln
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Not even a little bit
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Crack open a cold one
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Everyman painter
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
