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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Fort Worth a trip
Former tobacco plantation
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Made in a cabin
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
O say can you see
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Latin LACMA
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The past is female
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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Gothic tipi?
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Pre-bullets in the neck
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
