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Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Bless your heart
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Russian generals hated this painting and banned it
An orchestra of orcas?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Confronting the past
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Made in a cabin
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Fort Worth a trip
Former tobacco plantation
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Wearing a vest of many colors
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
O say can you see
The Ambassador Quintet
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Latin LACMA
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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:...
The past is female
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Gothic tipi?
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Pre-bullets in the neck
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
"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 (!)...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Her middle name might as well be “First”
His assistants did most of the work
War photographer who hated war
