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The seat of the United States Congress
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
A gift to the Nation
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
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Aye laddy...
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Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Hosts art shows and chess tournaments
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Get elevated
Island in the Plains
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Modern Indian masters
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The floor is lava
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"
Posher than Posh and Becks
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not
Russian Ark
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The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Two museums in one
Named after a beer maker
In the Athens of Australia
This museum is worth A-GO
The most picturesque corner of Venice
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The land of breast milk and honey
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Who run the world? Girls!
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Can you spot the fakes?
Based on personal observation
Secretary of Badassery
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Doctor Who is here a lot
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Hippest place in Brighton
Happy wife happy life!
Started by a navy man
The first of its kind
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A treasure trove of gold
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Was the Medici's office building
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
The real deal
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...
Saved by a princess
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
What is the meaning of life?
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The perils of flirting on a boat
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
New medium, who dis?
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
