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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Waiting on that free breakfast spread
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Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Act spontaneous!
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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Possible peace portrait
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
