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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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birth control or Bible stories?
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A journalistic painting of WWII
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Everyman painter
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San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
