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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
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Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Former tobacco plantation
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Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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The Latin LACMA
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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We exist in this space
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Made in a cabin
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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O say can you see
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The past is female
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
