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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
