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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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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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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
