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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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
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...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
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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!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
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...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Gothic tipi?
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
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...
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...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
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....
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
