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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Mary should have her own E! True Hollywood Story
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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