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Turn it on or tear it down
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Go away Apple!
No point in watering these beans
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Don’t mansplain!
Sounds like salami
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Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
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Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
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...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
