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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s bigger in person, I swear!
So get ready!
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Only men can see this one
Big Alma celebrates a "win" (Filipinos may see it differently)
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Cheshire Cat?
These women rock
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Branch out
The Neverending Memorial
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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Probably haunted
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
