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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
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