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Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Yea, that's his real name
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(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Great beard, better art
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
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Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
