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Gives new meaning to "eating out"
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Check your home security system people
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Concrete Jungle
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Vive La Revolution!
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
"Hyperreal"
An innocent red dot
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
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My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
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This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
