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October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
I scream, you scream, we all scream, because the clouds are made of blood
I hear you
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
TGIF
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Young, dumb and in love
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
