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Someone needs a first amendment refresher
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
