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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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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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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
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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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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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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
So get ready!
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
