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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Emasculates the German government
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
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Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
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Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
