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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art on the walls and in the toilets
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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Don’t be so naive
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Made in a cabin
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Careful, might make you howl!
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
