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Heavy-handed relief
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It’s exactly what it sounds like
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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A real O.G.
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
We want the Funk
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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...
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
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Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
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Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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,...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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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...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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...
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...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
