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How do you like your museums?  I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...

Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...

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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...

Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...

Filmic Fabric of a People

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

When the mistress gets bored, build a museum

Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...

Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...

The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...

Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...

  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...

Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows

Way better than the Old Britain museum

…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:

Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...

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  San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...

  One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...

Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...

The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...

Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...

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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

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Has no time for white BS

We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...

Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...

Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...

Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...

Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...

To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.

If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

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Floating, we're floating

(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...

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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...

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Bringing Austria and Germany to the States

And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...

Furreak on a leash

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...

Used to be a palace, v. chic

  One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...

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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...

Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

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Southern Siamese slave-owners with sister wives

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...

Baby Herc nips the nip

Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...

Bratwurst and museums just don't mix

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Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...

With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...

Unchanged since 1918

The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

What does Red look like?  Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...

Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...

  “An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...

There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

Rococ-oh myyyyy!   It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

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Graphic or 'libertine'?

Everyone likes a mysterious girl

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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...

Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it?  Well,...

Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...

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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...

“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...

Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...

  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...

[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...

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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...

What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...

Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...

Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...

This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...

The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine

Thunderbird meets Bear

Bleeding red, white, and blue

Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...

An art bromance or something more?   Land art celebrity and hippie...

Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli  Beginning just nine years...

Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...

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You gotta check out the miniature paintings!

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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...

Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...

The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...

Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...

Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

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A Horrifying History

RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...

The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...

Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...

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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...

Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...

July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...

One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art

Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary

Stuck at home again

Need a ride?

Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend

Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...

Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

Varicose veins. They'll happen to you, too!

Calling all cynical pessimists!

Hello, Darkness my old friend

The world's newest most expensive painting

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....

  Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...

The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...

A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum

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An unfortunate moral dilemma…

The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...

Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...

French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...

Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...

Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...

Swastikas were ok at the time

At the bottom of the sea

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...

Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...

Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw   It's an old Greek word shot into...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...

It's ok to be king

It ain't easy bein' blonde

Disappearing act

Come and play with us

A tell-all title

  Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...

Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...

  At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...

  Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...

We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...

(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt

With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...

Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...

Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...

Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*

Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...

Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...

Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.

Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...

Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...

Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born.  Empress of couture Elsa...

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...

In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....

Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93.  Modern Audiences and Comic...

Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...

What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...

  Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...

She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..

If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting

Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...

Painting skyscrapers before it was cool

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...

“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...

  The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...

Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...

Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...

  Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...

Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...

Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...

Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...

We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...

  If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...

Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...

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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...

As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...

If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...

Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...

So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...

The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...

In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...

  As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...

Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...

Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like...    The Chichu...

One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...

Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl?  Karl the FOG, that...

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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble

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

Motor city

Good wine and interesting art

Two museums in one

One of the wealthiest museums in America

Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"

Named after a beer maker

Will somebody please think of the children??

Put a bird on it

A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin

Sweet Home Alabama

Cooler than an Orange Julius

In the Athens of Australia

It's free, not cheap

I would walk 500 miles...

It's hammer time

Yee-haw

Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art

This museum is worth A-GO

Just keeps getting bigger

Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)

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

Get High on art here

Lots of art in the heartland

Awesome, free, big-city museum

The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...

The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...

When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...

Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival

A gift to the Nation

From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.

Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...

Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager   Can you even...

Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...

This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).

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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...

  Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...

We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...

You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...

This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...

Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...

American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...

All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

Only museum to have famous poetry written about it

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

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T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...

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USA's very first art school and museum

Created as part of the New Deal

Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg

One of the oldest public art museums in America

Has a cool grand staircase

Who run the world? Girls!

Brand spankin' new!

Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum

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...?

2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place

Happy wife happy life!

Great art in the windy city

Started by a navy man

Everything's bigger in Texas

Possibly haunted

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!

Fits 423 hospital beds

Art on the walls and in the toilets

The first of its kind

Largest collection of British art outside the UK

Free museums for the win

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  It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...

You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place

Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...

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  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...

Hippest place in Brighton

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...

Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...

…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…

At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...

Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art

Saved in times of war

  Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

  Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...

The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online

Crazy architecture and a rocking view

San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...

Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...

This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...

Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...

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John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...

Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...

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I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...

This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.

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YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...

Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...

I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo.  Photo @doedeerePablo...

It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...

It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...

On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...

(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...

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

Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!

Yes...they "borrowed" the art

Poop in style while you enjoy art

Cheers to the gov'na!

Not for during rush hour

The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!

Not made of crystals

Come one, come all

October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...

People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...

Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...

Former tobacco plantation

Built by Bernini and Borromini

SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.

Just a little touch of star quality

For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash

Brought to you by your favorite skin cream

Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art

Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...

Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/

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Maman by Louise Bourgeois

Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...

Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur

Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg

Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Madame X by John Singer Sargent

Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre

Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik

George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...

Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...

Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by  Bronzino at the  Uffizi...

Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse

Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek

Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/

Considerable collections

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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...