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Nothin' but the nasty
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If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
