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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Every woman's dream: be married to the god of jewelry
Never-ending list of fans!
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A good swattin’
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Made in a cabin
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We dont need no education
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
