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President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Boy, do we miss him now
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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Not your typical presidential portrait
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Yaassssss Queen
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Criticizing the critics
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
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Act spontaneous!
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Possible peace portrait
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
