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Concrete Jungle
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It's not a vagina!
Don’t mansplain!
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Vive La Revolution!
Can’t touch this
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At the bottom of the sea
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Not allowed to be political
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"Hyperreal"
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An innocent red dot
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...