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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
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The flaming allegory
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Gustave, the babysitter of the impressionists.
The battle of wits has begun!
Lots of action here
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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
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My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
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On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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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...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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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...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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...
