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The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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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
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
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
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
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
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
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...?
Great art in the windy city
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
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Hippest place in Brighton
Check your home security system people
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Considerable collections
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
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
Not for during rush hour
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Former tobacco plantation
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Sadly, still relevant
Watch now
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Can you spot the fakes?
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Not just a bunch of books
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It's not a vagina!
Funky art in the heart of farm country
A treasure trove of gold
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
The Latin LACMA
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Vive La Revolution!
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution
Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men
There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here
If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas
Old meets new at this Ivy League museum
Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot
Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*
Orphan Annie's favorite museum
Austria's finest
U. Can't Lick Art
Art and a murder trunk? Count me in!
Dedicated to Human History and Culture
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want
All Vinny, all the time
Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street
Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star
All hail Andy Warhol!
A bathtub filled with art
Hannover: a nice place to visit
Mash up the place
Will Rockwell your world
Black is King
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Who says you can't marry your cousin?
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
More van Gogh than you can shake a stick at
Go Pirates
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Don't worry, it's totally kosher
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Oldest museum in the world
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Vision of a man who stood on his head every day
Good luck Chuck
Thank God popes like art
The world's most visited museum
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
"Hyperreal"
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Not ideal for those with vertigo
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Was in an episode of Breaking Bad
Home of the most expensive art heist in history
Old museum, old dudes
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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 of our favorites in DC
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
Treasures around every corner
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
The Blue House
Don't get stomped on
Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings
In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Russian Ark
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Not a one trick pony
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Classic Hirst
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
This museum is worth A-GO
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A gift to the Nation
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Has a cool grand staircase
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
Free museums for the win
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
USA's very first art school and museum
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Careful, might make you howl!
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
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!
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Buy now on Taschen
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
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
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Their first curator added much of his own work
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Those Swiss have got it all!
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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