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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
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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
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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!
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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
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Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
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Yes...they "borrowed" the art
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Cheers to the gov'na!
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Not made of crystals
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Come one, come all
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Former tobacco plantation
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SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
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Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
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Madame X by John Singer Sargent
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Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
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Considerable collections
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Their first curator added much of his own work
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Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
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Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
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One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
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Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
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If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
A treasure trove of gold
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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...
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
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Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
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Used to be a palace, v. chic
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Don't tell her what to do!
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The respiratory rose...might make you curl your toes
You spin me right round, baby, right round
An ode to Disney’s weird old days.
Peek-a-boob
Not your average small talk
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An atheist makes a chapel where you’re NOT allowed to pray
"Black Swan" meets "Parasite"
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Criticizing the critics
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Literally *fire*
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Artist, Scholar and Curator
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Come rain, shine or Covid, it's always on display
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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Protecting Catholicism since 1609
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We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
