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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
A gift to the Nation
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Who run the world? Girls!
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
A good swattin’
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Island in the Plains
Aye laddy...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Careful, might make you howl!
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Danish, anyone?
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Doctor Who is here a lot
We dont need no education
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Get elevated
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
What is the meaning of life?
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
