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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Sorry PETA
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
